Conflict & Security
Egyptian flight attendant Azza Ramzy dies in Riyadh airport attack
October 11, 2026 at 08:32 PM · Updated 4d ago
5 reports · over 13 hours
Egyptian flight attendant Azza Ramzy, 28, has died from wounds suffered in the attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that killed 12 people.
- Azza Ramzy Mohammed Hassan, a flight attendant for a Saudi airline, died from injuries sustained in the airport attack.
- Her cousin Ahmed Labib said Ramzy had planned to retire and return to Egypt to live with her father.
- Ramzy's sister Mona, a flight attendant at the same company, was with her during the attack and is coordinating the return of the body.
- Egypt's National Council for Women, chaired by Amal Ammar, mourned Ramzy and expressed solidarity with the families of Egyptians injured in the attack.
- Egypt's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hatem Abdel Qader, said the embassy is completing procedures to repatriate Ramzy's body and received a list of the injured.
- President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi directed Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty to instruct the embassy to contact Ramzy's family and expedite her repatriation.
- Egypt's Foreign Ministry said it arranged visits to five injured Egyptians in Riyadh hospitals.
- Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation raised the attack's injury toll to 309 people.




