Three Qatari diplomats were killed and two others injured in a car accident on Saturday while traveling to Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, health officials said.
The crash occurred when their vehicle overturned about 50 kilometers from Sharm el-Sheikh, the officials said, adding that the injured were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The diplomats, members of Qatar’s protocol team, were on their way to the resort city ahead of a high-level summit celebrating the recently brokered ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to brief the media.
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Qatar, along with Egypt and the United States, played a key role in mediating the ceasefire, while Turkey joined the negotiations earlier this month in Sharm el-Sheikh. The talks resulted in a truce and the release of hostages and hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.
According to a statement from the Egyptian presidency, the upcoming summit in Sharm el-Sheikh will be co-chaired by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and US President Donald Trump.
More than two dozen world leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, and UN Secretary-General António Guterres, are expected to attend the meeting.
Source: AP