Foreign Ministry Offers Condolences to Sisi over Plane Crash

Lebanon's Foreign Ministry sent a cable of condolences on Friday to Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi over the crashing of an EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo.

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants offers its deepest condolences to President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, to the families of the victims and to the people of Egypt,” said the statement.

“The ministry extends its condolences to the leadership and people of France and other brethren and friendly countries, who lost citizens in this terrible incident,” added the statement.

An EgyptAir Airbus A320 flight from Paris to Cairo crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday with possible wreckage spotted off a Greek island, as investigators probed whether it was downed by a bomb.

A massive search was under way for the plane.

EgyptAir said 15 French citizens were among the 26 foreign passengers on the plane, who also included a Briton and at least one Canadian.

They included a boy and two babies.

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