Cairo airport receives 3 bodies of Egyptians killed by floods in Jordan

Cairo International Airport received three bodies of the Egyptians who were killed by floods in Jordan.

The bodies, which belong to a young man and two children, arrived on board of an Egyptian plane coming from Amman, said medical sources in the airport.

The authorities of the quarantine finalized the release measures of the bodies, issued burial permissions and handed them to their families to bury them in Sharqia governorate.

Director of the Jordanian Information Department of the General Directorate of Civil Defense Farid el Sahrae told MENA corespondent here that an Egyptian worker named Abdel Nasser el Sayed Abdel Wahab, 25, was killed by electric shock due to the floods hit by Jordan.

His body was found after hours of his death in a garage after one of his colleagues mentioned that he was missing, he noted.

The two children died in their basement room when it was inundated with flood water, the official underlined.

Rain water was three meter deep in the room.

The two were aged 4 and 12 years old.

Source: MENA