Vietnamese embassy in Egypt makes every effort in citizen protection
The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt has coordinated with relevant Vietnamese agencies at home and local authorities to do well citizen protection work related to a recent bomb attack in the North African country.
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
Vietnamese Ambassador to Eygpt Tran Thanh Cong has affirmed that eight out of 12 Vietnamese people who were injured in the recent bomb attack in Cairo have completely recovered and could return home.
Egyptian Tourism Minister Rania Al-Mashat on December 29 affirmed that her ministry will coordinate with the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt to create favorable conditions for relatives of Vietnamese tourists who were killed and injured in the bomb blast in Giza to come to the country.
The recent bomb attack on a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists in Egypt that killed four people, including three Vietnamese, continued to prompt global outrage.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt and Ho Chi Minh City will coordinate with competent agencies in the host country to send home eight Vietnamese victims of the December 28 bomb attack who are in good health or suffer from only light injuries.
The Vietnamese embassy in Egypt on December 31 had the last working session with the working team of Ho Chi Minh City to review and finalize the list of the nine tourists who suffered light injuries or were not injured in the earlier bomb attack to go back home in the first batch.
The first nine out of 12 Vietnamese tourists injured in a recent bomb attack in Egypt arrived at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City in the afternoon of January 1.
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At the scene of bomb attack (Source) 
