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Zeinab al-Gundy – Ahram Online
Yahia Hassan Yahia Hamed, an Egyptian man in his thirties from Mit Ghamr, was killed earlier on 15 March following the Russian shelling of Mariupol in the Ukraine.
Hamed was sheltering in the battered Ukrainian city along with his wife and mother-in-law. “He died immediately when a bomb landed next to him while he was buying food for the family on 15 March. His death was confirmed more than a week later on Saturday 26 March”, said an Egyptian diplomatic source in Cairo.
“We did not know of him because he was not a resident of Ukraine, he came to visit his wife and child in Mariupol in early February but then the war broke out and he got stuck here”, Ali Farouk, head of the Egyptian community in Ukraine told Ahram Online.
After a long search, members of the Egyptian community in Ukraine managed to reach Hamed’s wife on Saturday. She informed them that her Egyptian husband died during the shelling of the city a week earlier, and he was buried in Mariupol.
“Since Russian armed forces launched their offensive on 24 February, at least 1,035 civilians have been killed and at least 1,650 injured in Ukraine”, Matilda Bogner, the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the Ukraine, said on Friday.
Egypt has been pushing forward with efforts to repatriate its citizens home from Ukraine. Prior to the Russian operation, around 6,000 Egyptians lived in the Ukraine, including 3,000 undergraduates.
