Bride dies in road crash days before wedding

An Egyptian girl died and her groom was injured in a road crash days before their wedding.

The girl, identified as Bousy Al Burai, was killed while her groom Mahmoud Al Burhami, sustained multiple injuries after their car flipped over on a road in the coastal city of Damietta. The couple was heading to Damietta, a hub for the furniture industry in Egypt, to buy furnishings for their new house ahead of the wedding party scheduled later this month. The cause of the crash was not clear.

The tragedy triggered mass mourning in the girl’s village in the governorate of Kafr Al Shaikh. Thousands participated in her funeral during which some chanted “There is no God but Allah and the bride will be in heaven if Allah wills,” Al Masri Al Youm reported.