Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Thousands of Egyptian pilgrims protesting at the airport in a very

Thousands of Egyptian pilgrims protesting at the airport in a very

According to Alalam.ir Website : An official at the airport in King Abdul Aziz International Airport in Jeddah, told AFP Tuesday that "a very tragic situation and there are cases of fainting and collapse of the elderly and the disabled and the disabled after the deterioration of their health because of the long wait in the halls for more than 72 hours"He attributed the source, who declined to be identified causes of congestion and the state of anger, "not to fulfill their obligations towards them Saudi Arabian Airlines to provide aircraft to return to Cairo to travelers who were huge numbers"The source navigation that "most of those responsible at the airport kept a low profile did not do its duty to the fullest and left the responsibility for airport security personnel," adding, "security personnel halls were forced to issue boarding passes (Albordng) for the pilgrims and worked to provide food and medicine to them, let alone disperse the crowd and calm the angry people "The source confirmed that "the problem lies in the management of Saudi Arabian Airlines underestimated by thousands of pilgrims returning to their country and left them for days in airport lounges, without interest," emphasizing that "all the other airlines did not experience any delays or congestion at all."He pointed out that "more than ten thousand Egyptian pilgrim visitor at the airport after a night seal the Koran in the Mosque, but they did not find in the waiting aircraft traveling to Cairo"Although the Saudi Arabian Airlines tried to alleviate the tragic situation by renting aircraft to Cabo Nigerian lines, but the "humanitarian situation of the pilgrims is still bad," according to the sourceThe source expressed the fears of the impact of these events on the UK's reputation abroad, and said, "some Egyptians interpreted it as a conspiracy against them and destroyed the offices of the Saudi Arabian Airlines as a reaction to that."And Tuesday, he visited the Egyptian Consul in Jeddah airport to try to calm some of the pilgrims and provide them with necessary services and coordination to schedule a returnThe agency and the Ministry of Hajj for Umrah revealed last week that the number of Umrah visas granted until the fifteenth of the month of August amounted to more than 4.6 million visas, an increase of more than a million and one hundred thousand visa for the same period last year ...
Original Text At Alalam.ir

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