Egypt’s foreign ministry says embassy staff killed in Khartoum
Egypt’s foreign ministry says embassy staff killed in Khartoum
An Egyptian embassy employee in Sudan has been killed in the country's fighting.
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Egypt, like other countries, is evacuating its citizens from Sudan [Getty/archive]
Egypt’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the assistant administrative attache at its embassy in Khartoum has been killed amid fighting between rival military factions in the Sudanese capital.
"Muhammad El Gharrawi, was killed as he was driving to the embassy to follow up the procedures of the evacuations of the Egyptians stranded in Sudan," the ministry said in a statement.
تنعى وزارة الخارجية ببالغ الحزن والأسى فقيد الواجب، الاستاذ محمد الغراوى، مساعد الملحق الإداري بسفارة مصر فى الخرطوم. استشهد الفقيد وهو فى طريقه إلى مقر السفارة لمتابعة مهام إجلاء المواطنين المصريين.رحم الله فقيدنا الغالى واسكنه فسيح جناته..وتحيا مصر دوماً بتضحيات أبنائها الأبرار
— Egypt MFA Spokesperson (@MfaEgypt)
The Sudanese army, which originally reported that Egypt's assistant military attache had been killed, corrected its statement, saying the assistant administrative attache had been killed by fire from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
(Reuters)
