Qatari officials killed in car crash near Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, embassy says



CAIRO โ€” Three employees of Qatar’s Amiri Diwan, its top government body, were killed in a car crash near Egyptโ€™s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Qatar’s embassy in Egypt said in a post on X on Sunday.

The embassy said two others were wounded and were receiving necessary medical treatment at the cityโ€™s hospital.

It said the injured and the bodies of the deceased would be repatriated later on Sunday to Doha.

Earlier, two security sources told Reuters that a car carrying Qatari diplomats overturned on a curve on a road 31 miles from the city.

The accident came a few days after officials from Qatar, Turkey and Egypt participated in indirect talks in Sharm el-Sheikh earlier this week that led to the agreement between Israel and Hamas on the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trumpโ€™s plan to end the war in Gaza.

The Egyptian city is set to host a global summit on Monday aimed at finalizing the agreement.

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