St Catherine hikers froze to death before call for help was made - forensic report

Wednesday 26-02-2014 07:01 PM
St Catherine hikers froze to death before call for help was made - forensic report

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

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CAIRO, Feb 26 (Aswat Masriya) The four Egyptians who were found dead last week in Sinai’s St Catherine mountains died a natural death due to the extreme cold weather, a forensic report said.

Eight Egyptians were on a hiking trip when they were hit by an ice storm last week that caused the death of four of them.

The hikers died before Monday, before the call for help was made, a medical source in southern Sinai told Aswat Masriya. 

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