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Absentee Funeral for EgyptAir Crew Attracts Hundreds of Mourners

May 24, 2016

Crowds of mourners flocked on Monday to the Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi mosque in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement for an absentee funeral for the perished crew members onboard the EgyptAir MS804 plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea. The hundreds of people attending the event offered their condolences to the relatives of the lost crew members, some wearing the EgyptAir uniform in solidarity with the national airliner and the victims’ families, privately-owned Egypt Independent reported. “Although staff have been psychologically shaken by the accident, we are trying to carry out our duty to support the airline,” pilot Saher Hassan said. “We could have been in the shoes of the victims,” another pilot said, adding that the crash has prompted a wave of support and solidarity with those most affected. In the days since the Airbus 320 went missing en route from Paris to Cairo on Thursday, funerals and memorial services have been held for the victims at various locations. On Friday, hundreds of people flocked to the Abu Bakr El Seddik Mosque in Cairo to mourn the 66 passengers and crew who died in the disaster. “I lost my brother, he…


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