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Army aircraft transfers bodies of St Catherine hikers to Cairo
An Egyptian watch tower is seen close to the construction site of a barrier on the border between Israel and Egypt along Highway 12 in Israel, a desert road north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat, in this February 15, 2012 file picture. REUTERS/Baz Ratner/Files
CAIRO, Feb 19 (Aswat Masriya) An army aircraft transferred the bodies of four Egyptians, who were killed in an ice storm while hiking in the St Catherine mountains in the Sinai peninsula, to Cairo on Wednesday.
An army statement has said that Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified the decision to send an aircraft to transfer the bodies to the Egyptian capital.
The body of the last missing hiker, director Mohamed Ramadan, was found earlier on Wednesday, an official has confirmed.
Out of the eight hikers, four have been admitted to a hospital and are currently receiving medical attention.
