Desert storm: Grieving Mexican tourist describes accidental three-hour bombardment in Egypt
Survivors have told Mexican diplomats that they came under fire from an airplane and helicopters in Sunday’s attack.
A Mexican whose convoy of fellow tourists was accidentally targeted by the Egyptian military has described a harrowing three-hour bombardment that killed eight compatriots, including her husband, whose dying words to her were “I love you.”
Susan Calderon’s dramatic account was published in the El Universal newspaper on Thursday, hours before she and five other survivors headed home on a Mexican government plane with the foreign minister.
Survivors have told Mexican diplomats that they came under fire from an airplane and helicopters in Sunday’s attack, which was condemned by President Enrique Pena Nieto, who demanded a swift investigation.
“You could see the viciousness with which they came and went... We were bombed about five times, always from the air. It all lasted some three hours,” said Calderon, who was wounded in both arms.
Her husband, Luis Barajas, was one of the eight Mexican tourists who died in the attack. Four Egyptian guides were also killed.
“There was nowhere to hide, nowhere to run... I don’t know if it was rockets or bombs or whatever,” said Calderon, who was applying sunscreen on her spouse when the tourist convoy came under fire during a lunch break.