Kelima orang Eropa itu ialah Peter Rudge dan Jonathan Ireland, sekretaris satu dan petugas administrasi di kedutaanbesar Inggris di Adisababa, Malcolm Smart dan Laure Beaufils, yang bekerja untuk Bagian Pembangunan Antarbangsa di ibukota Etiopia itu dan Rosanna Moore, istri kepala British Council di sana.
The five Europeans were named as Peter Rudge and Jonathan Ireland, first secretary and administrative support at the British Embassy in Addis Ababa, Malcolm Smart and Laure Beaufils working for the Department for International Development in the Ethiopian capital and Rosanna Moore, wife of the head of the British Council there.