Yesterday the world lost a beautiful soul, 19-year-old Yara Tarek Negm. She was a first year engineering student at the German University in Cairo. According to Karim Naguib, the vice president of the GUC Student Union, she was running to catch her bus at 4 pm and accidentally stumbled behind a bus while another bus came up from behind, crushing her between the two. Protests continued on Wednesday morning, with GUC campus security preventing students from entering. In response, students blocked the gates and prevented university staff from entering. This forced campus security to eventually allow students to enter. GUC declared three days of mourning and cancelled all classes. All buses leading to the campus have also been cancelled during these three days. Karim Naguib also stated in a television interview, that the university ambulance came after 15 minutes and by then Yara had already lost a huge amount of blood. Some students at GUC have claimed the university refused o send the ambulance until Yara was confirmed as a GUC student. Yara was transferred to the Air Force hospital in the Fifth Settlement and her death was confirmed at 7 o’clock by the…
19-Year-Old Crushed To Death Between Two University Buses Sparking Protests
March 11, 2015
