In an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live, Mr Prior said the couple had been sight-seeing when they suffered gunshot wounds.

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Afterward, they performed at a half-empty club in Williamsburg and spent an afternoon sight-seeing in Manhattan, walking 60 blocks uptown and eating pizza.

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Among the watchers was Vikki Bailey, 28, on a sight-seeing trip to London from Canterbury with three friends, who included the capital's new mayor on their list.

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Speaking from his cabin on the cruise liner, off the coast of Antigua, Mr Prior told of the moment he heard "bangs" as the couple were sight-seeing in Bridgetown.

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Having been to Manhattan a number of times on business, I figured that either the news was completely fabricated or a sight-seeing plane had strayed into some building near New York.

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The key to keeping cool in summertime New York City is to forego midtown Manhattan, the Big Apple's "core", filled to bursting with sight-seeing buses and camera-clicking hordes from the 4th of July through to Labor Day.

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The question seems particularly acute seeing that, at first sight, there seems to be very little in the exclusive-contracts issue for Airbus: none of these airlines (which themselves sought the exclusive deals with Boeing) has shown much interest in buying Airbus aircraft.

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