Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Mexico reaches compensation deal for victims of 2015 Egypt bombing

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 . . .

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