Team sent to help Egypt balloon crash relatives

Hong Kong will send a pathologist to Egypt to help the families of the victims of the balloon crash, the Health Department said on Wednesday.

Nine Hong Kong tourists, who each paid US$190 (HK$1,474) per person for the sightseeing trip, were killed in the horrible balloon crash in Luxor on Tuesday.

The pathologist is being selected by the department and is expected to announce soon when he or she will travel to Egypt.

The pathologist will join three clinical psychologists and a nurse from the Hospital Authority, who have already been sent to Egypt to assist the victims’ relatives, who are also on their way to the country to deal with the necessary formalities.

The Hospital Authority team is lead by Rosalie Lo Shuk-yee, a senior clinical psychologist, who was sent to Manila in 2010 to help with the hostage crisis there.

The team, along with three Immigration Department officers and relatives of the victims, left Hong Kong early this morning for the Egyptian capital of Cairo.