still an accident Victims of the desert of Matrouh who died of starvation and thirst during a falconry trip last week, occupy Egyptians.
Their uncle’s son revealed painful details about the incident. Jibril Ragheb Al-Mutairi told Al-Arabiya.net that his uncle Ramadan’s two sons, Abu Mutir, and his assistant Abu Mutair, and the child Shaheen Ramadan, son of the first, set out on a three-day bird hunting trip in the Western Desert in Marsa Matrouh Governorate.
He also added that they got lost in the desert and died of starvation and thirst after their car ran out of fuel, food and water, in addition to the interruption of the mobile phone network in the area, noting that the people of Matrouh rushed to search for them until they were able to reach their bodies. water, and thus died of thirst.
Running out of fuel
He also added that the tracksmen, and during the search trip, found a falcon carrying a “ring” on one of its feet with the name of one of the missing persons written on it, adding that by tracking the car of the missing persons was found in the middle of the desert in the Negev Al-Shaqqa area.
Jibril added that the criminals arrived at the place of the car first, where it stopped after the fuel ran out, and then they followed the footprints of the missing people who walked about 15 kilometers from the place where the car stopped until they reached the first body, which was for the little boy.
He also confirmed that they found quantities of firewood on the child’s body, and about a few meters away they found the body of an assistant with a shawl on it, then two kilometers away on Ramadan’s body.
While they noticed that the deceased, as a result of running out of food and water, ate the hunting birds that were in their possession, and they also drank the water from the car radiator.
“Water loyal”
However, the shock was in a phrase found near the bodies, which is “Water Saviors”, and above it an arrow indicating the direction in which they walked, which indicated that they were still clinging to the hope or possibility that someone would find and rescue them.
It is noteworthy that the bodies were buried yesterday in a massive and solemn funeral procession in which thousands of Matrouh and Alexandria residents participated, especially since all the victims reside in the sugar beet area in Borg El Arab in the Alexandria governorate.
The painful incident shook the feelings of the Egyptians, who demanded an investigation into the reasons for the delay in the search and rescue operations.