At the bomb attack site (Source: Xinhua/VNA) Cairo (VNA) – TheVietnamese Embassy in Egypt and Ho Chi Minh City will coordinate with competentagencies in the host country to send home eight Vietnamese victims of the December28 bomb attack who are in good health or suffer from only light injuries.
At a December 30 working session with a delegation of HCM City, includingrepresentatives of Saigon Tourist which operated the tour, Ambassador TranThanh Cong said those victims would be able to return home in the next one ortwo days.
The embassy and the HCM City delegation will coordinate with local authoritiesto complete necessary procedures to repatriate the bodies of the three deadvictims, while three others with serious injuries will have to wait forpermission from doctors.
Representatives from the embassy and the delegation then met with families ofthe victims.
The same day, a delegation of the Egyptian parliament led by Chairman of the ForeignAffairs Committee Karim A.Darwish, and some Egyptians visited the VietnameseEmbassy to express their sympathy over the incident.
According to the embassy, the three seriously-wounded victims have receivedsurgeries, four with light injuries are recovering and five others sufferingfrom scratches now can move around normally.
The Egyptian Embassy in Vietnam has granted urgent visas for relatives of thevictims to travel to Egypt.
Countries such as the US, the UK, Russia, Kuwait, Italy, Belgium, Spain andSaudi Arabia have strongly condemned the bomb attack and extended their deepestsympathy to the victims and their families.
Abus carrying 15 Vietnamese tourists was hit by a bomb at 18:15 on December 28(local time). The tourists were on their way to the airport to return homeafter a trip to Giza pyramids. Three Vietnamese tourists and one Egyptian guidewere killed in the bombing.-VNA
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