Qatari officials killed in car crash near Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, embassy says

October 12, 2025 9:01 AM

Qatari officials killed in car crash near Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh, embassy says

Three employees of Qatar’s Amiri Diwan, its top government body, were killed in a car crash near Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Qatar’s embassy in Egypt said in a post on X on Sunday. The embassy said two others were wounded and were receiving necessary medical treatment at the city’s hospital. It said the injured and the bodies of the deceased would be repatriated later on Sunday to Doha. Earlier, two security sources told Reuters that a car carrying Qatari diplomats...

Liverpool’s Portuguese forward Diogo Jota dies in car crash in Spain

July 3, 2025 2:55 PM

Liverpool’s Portuguese forward Diogo Jota dies in car crash in Spain

Liverpool's Portuguese forward Diogo Jota, 28, died in a car crash near Zamora in northwestern Spain with his brother, the Portuguese Football Federation said on Thursday. The regional fire department of Castile and Leon, where Zamora is located, said on its website a car crashed early on Thursday, shortly after midnight, and burst into flames, with two men, aged 28 and 26, found dead. "We have lost two champions. Their deaths represent irreparable losses for Portuguese football, and we will d...