At the scene of bomb attack (Source)Hanoi (VNA) - The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt has coordinated with relevantVietnamese agencies at home and local authorities to do well citizen protectionwork related to a recent bomb attack in the NorthAfrican country.
Nine out of 12 Vietnamese tourists injured in the attack weretaken back home on January 1.
The embassy is implementing necessary procedures to bring the bodies of threetourists killed in the attack back to the homeland as soon as possible.
The three remaining people, who have serious injuries,are under intensivetreatment at an Egyptian hospital and are expected to leave Cairo when theirhealth is better.
The embassy now continues to work with Egyptian authorities,and the Consular Department has asked relevant domesticauthorities to support the Vietnamese citizens in doing immigration procedures and facilitatethe transport of the dead bodies.
On January 2, staff from the embassy visited injured visitorswho are being treated at Sheikh Zayed Specialized Hospital in Egypt.
According to Vice Ambassador Vu Thien, with the activesupport and treatment of Egyptian doctors, the wounded’s health is improving.
The same day, Doan Thi Thanh Tra, marketing and communicationsdirector of Saigontourist Travel Service Company,saidthat under the plan, the procedures related to the transport of the bodies ofthree tourists killed during the incident were completed in Cairo.
The flight to bring the bodies back to Vietnam is scheduled to depart onJanuary 4 and land on January 5.
The Vietnamese tourists were victims of a bombing in Egypt on December 28.Their bus was hit by a bomb at 18:15 (local time) on the way to the airport toreturn home after a trip to Giza pyramids, concluding their seven-day tourorganised by Saigontourist. Three Vietnamese tourists and one Egyptian guidewere killed in the bombing.-VNA
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