British photographer and girlfriend killed after hiding in bunker, say her family

A BRITON and his girlfriend missing in Israel following attacks by Hamas were today feared to have been killed.

- Anthony France

Photographer Danny Darlington was unaccounted for since he went into hiding in a bunker in Nir Oron, a kibbutz in the south of the county close to the border with Gaza on Saturday.

The kibbutz was one of the first communities targeted when Hamas militants inflitrated the border and attacked early on Saturday morning. One resident said: “We are being slaughtered. There is no army. People are begging for their lives.”

Others described how people were loaded onto the back of a truck flanked by Hamas fighters and taken into Gaza.

Mr Darlington, who lived in Berlin, had been travelling with German partner Carolin Bohl. The couple — seen happily posing for snap on Instagram shortly before they vanished — chronicled their adventures on social media. Ms Bohl's heartbroken sister Anja Pasquesi said last night the family had now received news of their deaths from a friend "on the ground" in Israel.