Foreign Minister Ruiz Massieu, Victims' Relatives, Doctors Travel to Egypt ABC
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Mexico's government has called on Egypt to swiftly investigate why a group of tourists were targeted in an air strike. At least two of the people killed were Mexican citizens. (CCTV News)

Update: Mexican Tourists Who Suffered Attack to Return Home by Presidential Plane (Ahram Online)

Mexico has called on Egypt to swiftly investigate why tourists were mistakenly targeted in what witnesses described as an air strike that left at least two Mexicans dead and six unaccounted for.

President Enrique Pena Nieto said 14 Mexicans were among those involved in Sunday's "grave incident" in the Western Desert.

"The events of [Sunday] have saddened us as a nation. There is no precedent, in years, of an event like this one that harms our compatriots," Mr Pena Nieto said.

"Mexico has demanded from the Egyptian government an exhaustive, deep and swift investigation into what happened," he said at a military event in Mexico City.

Mexico's foreign minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu said she would travel with seven relatives of some of the victims as well as Mexican doctors to care for the wounded.

"We face of a terrible loss of human lives and an unjustified attack that obligates us to make the protection of our citizens the priority," Ms Ruiz Massieu told reporters at Mexico City's international airport.

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Related: Mistaken Shooting of Mexican Tourists in Egypt Connected to Kidnapping, Guide Says (CBC)

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