Injured Mexican Tourists Returned From Egypt

She called for a “comprehensive, prompt and transparent investigation” into the “tragic and unprecedented events” on Sunday.

Publicly, at least, that accounting hasn’t happened yet.

“I’m very grateful to the Egyptian people and the Mexican people for all their attentiveness”, said Maricela Rangel Davalos as she was being placed into an ambulance en route to the airport.

Six other Mexicans were wounded in the attack.

After the visit at the Dar al-Fouad where the recovering Mexicans are being treated, Massieu said they are stable and “evolving favourably”.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed condolences but declined to give an account of the circumstances surrounding the deaths, saying details will be provided once the full investigation has concluded.

The Egyptian government insists that the tourists had entered an off-limit area and had been mistakenly killed while security forces were pursuing armed militants. Relatives of the Mexican tourists will accompany her on the flight.

Survivors have told Mexican diplomats that they came under fire from a plane and helicopters.

Cardenas disagreed with Egypt’s line, as the wrongs of the incident are clearer he said, also nothing the convoy had permissions and a police escort.

Egypt’s government has compared its war against terror with Mexico’s war on drugs in an open letter regretting the loss of Mexican tourists who were confused for insurgents and killed by Egypt’s military.

“We were bombed some five times, always from the air”, revealed Calderon to Mexican newspaper El Universal while laying in her hospital bed. In total, 12 people died, eight of whom were Mexican citizens.

Wednesday’s ban covers foreign outlets but does not apply to official statements released by Egyptian prosecutors.

After launching spectacular attacks against security forces in its north Sinai bastion over the past two years, ISIS in Egypt is now adopting tactics similar to those of the ISIS group in Iraq and Syria – abducting and beheading foreigners.

“It would defy reason to think that Egypt’s law enforcement authorities could ever deliberately harm innocent tourists”, he wrote.

Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, is battling an Islamist insurgency that has intensified since mid-2013 when then-army chief Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, after mass protests against his rule.

The tour group had been travelling in a convoy of four 4x4s near the Bahariya oasis, a popular tourist location.