By Nawal Sayed
CAIRO, March 11 (SEE) - Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs and Egyptians Abroad Ambassador Yasser Mahmoud Hashim said that the Egyptian embassy in Addis Ababa has been following up with the Ethiopian authorities all procedures related to retrieving the bodies of the six Egyptian victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight to Addis Ababa.
Names of the six Egyptian victims, according to the statement, as follow:
"It is expected that the process of verification of victims' identities will take at least three weeks and international expertise will be used in this regard," Yasser added in a statement issued Monday.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs extends its deepest condolences to the families of all the victims, calling upon the Almighty to honor them and to inspire their families with patience and compassion," the statement read.
The statement manifested that the Ethiopian Airlines will ensure the transfer of the bodies of the victims to Cairo and the Embassy of Egypt in Addis Ababa will work on obtaining death certificates for the victims in coordination with the Ethiopian concerned authorities.
On Sunday, an Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet bound for Nairobi crashed minutes after take-off, killing all 157 people on board and raising questions about the safety of the Boeing 737 MAX 8, a new model that also crashed in Indonesia in last October.
Passengers from 35 countries were aboard.
The dead included citizens from Kenya, Ethiopia, America, Canada, France, China, Egypt, Sweden, Britain, the Netherlands, India, Slovakia, Austria, Russia, Morocco, Spain, Poland, and Israel.
The cause of that crash is still under investigation.
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