Mexican FM urges exhaustive probe into Egypt tourist deaths
CAIRO – Mexico's foreign minister called on Wednesday for an exhaustive and transparent investigation into an Egyptian air strike that mistakenly killed eight Mexican tourists, after she visited survivors at a Cairo hospital.
The Mexicans have said their tour group came under aerial attack on Sunday in what the Egyptian interior ministry described as a botched operation against militants in the Western Desert. Four Egyptians were also killed.
Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu arrived in Cairo early on Wednesday seeking answers from the Egyptian government, after President Enrique Pena Nieto expressed his country's outrage. She told reporters at the Dar Al Fouad hospital that the condition of the survivors was stable and they were increasingly better.
She was scheduled to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi later in the day, the Egyptian presidency said. “We expect an exhaustive and complete and comprehensive and transparent investigation,” Ruiz Massieu said. The Egyptian government has said guides took the tourists into a restricted zone, an accusation vehemently denied by a union representing the guides.
In a letter addressed to Mexicans on Tuesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed his deepest condolences for the incident. But he stopped short of an apology, saying there was a probe under way and that "the chain of events is still confusing and unclear".
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