FRIENDS and family are praying for a Worcestershire teenager who was seriously injured in the Egypt bomb blasts.

Hannah Lloyd, who was on holiday with her mother Heidi and sister Georgina, is believed to have suffered 70 per cent burns after Saturday's car bomb attack on the resort of Sharm-El-Sheikh.

Devastated mum Heidi is torn between her daughters after 16-year-old Hannah was airlifted from a hospital in Cairo to England, while 14-year-old Georgina was being treated for leg injuries at the Sharm-El-Sheikh Hospital.

Georgina is believed to be well enough to come home in a few days.

Mrs Lloyd, with tears rolling down her cheeks, said at the resort: My daughter Georgie is here with me. My other daughter is gravely ill.

The family, of Northwick Road, Evesham, were staying in the Ghazala Gardens Hotel when it was hit in one of four

terrorist attacks.

Grandparents Ann and Jurgen Mast, of West Malvern said they were shattered at the news.

Neighbour and family friend Jenny Sadler had tears in her eyes as she described Hannah and Georgina as beautiful girls from a close-knit family.

I hope to God they make a good recovery, she said. They are two lovely kids. I have watched them grow up since they were babies and now they are two beautiful girls.

When they were younger they came to play with our cats and they adored their own two.

Now they have grown up into proper beautiful young ladies.

They are so popular and have friends around all the time and boys sit on the fence hoping for a chance to speak to Hannah.

They both idolised their mum who has brought them up by herself.

They are just a lovely close knit family and I feel sick at what they must be going through now. We'll pray for them and hope to God Hannah will be okay.

Other friends spoke of their horror that a family holiday should be interrupted by such tragedy.

Evesham vicar Reverend Barry Collins said: What terrible news.

We will be praying for them at all our services this week.

Mrs Lloyd issued a statement through the Foreign Office, saying: As a family we would like to confirm we were staying at the Ghazala Gardens Hotel.

As a result of one explosion, both our daughters have been hospitalised. One is receiving treatment in the UK and the other will be well enough to be returned to the UK in the next few days. We have been encouraged by the support we have received from the Egyptian and British organisations and we greatly appreciated this. We would also like to thank everyone who have sent us their good wishes.

We would like to ask the media if we could be left alone with the peace and privacy required to concentrate on our daughters and their recovery.

Grandmother Mrs Mast said that Hannah was inseparable from her sister, both former pupils of Evesham's Simon de Montfort Middle School.

She's a delightful little girl with a happy, outgoing personality, she added.

I'm really angry because this has happened because we went into Iraq.

One Briton is known to have died in the blasts and 10 more still missing are of particular concern, according to British Ambassador Sir Derek Plumbly.

We knew we had to cancel our holiday

A 25-year-old Worcester man due to fly out with his girlfriend for a luxury two-week holiday in Sharm-El-Sheikh said their decision to cancel was "instantaneous".

Adam Phillips, a former King's School, Worcester, student, had booked an all-inclusive trip to a four-star hotel in the resort six months ago, and was due to leave in August.

He heard about the bombings when his girlfriend 23-year-old Alexa Jago was sent a text by her sister on Saturday morning. We turned on the news and Lex said straight away, 'We are not going', said Mr Phillips, of Red Hill Lane, off London Road.

I knew she would not have felt comfortable there and our parents would not have been happy with the idea.

The trip cost £630 each and the couple initially feared they would lose the cash, before their travel agents, First Choice, confirmed they could switch destinations for just £60. We are now going to Crete for two weeks, though, because it is only half-board, it will cost a few hundreds pounds more in food, he added.

But First Choice were great. If we had to lose the money then so be it, because safety is more important, but they got back to us very soon and said we could change.

We were really looking forward to going to Egypt and this hasn't put me off forever.

I could still see myself going there in the future.