Compensation Deal Reached for Mexico's Victims of 2015 Egypt Bombing Dave Graham - Thomson Reuters Foundation
go to original September 13, 2016

A Mexican man wounded in an attack by the Egyptian army while traveling in Egypt, is draped in a Mexican flag as he's transferred from the return flight to a waiting helicopter at the presidential hangar of Benito Juarez International Airport in Mexico City in September, 2015. (AP/Rebecca Blackwell)

Mexicans who lost relatives or were wounded in an aerial bombing in Egypt last year have reached a compensation agreement with the Egyptian Travel Agents Association (ETAA), Mexico's government said on Tuesday.

In September 2015, an Egyptian army aircraft fired on a group of visitors parked for a barbecue near a tourist site, thinking they were militants. Eight Mexican citizens and four Egyptians were killed. Six Mexicans were wounded.

Mexico's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that after the intervention of both governments and their lawyers, an accord was reached with the ETAA to pay "financial compensation" to the victims once current religious festivals in Egypt are over.

...Under the accord, authorities in Egypt will also erect a memorial to the Mexican and Egyptian victims, the ministry said.

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