• Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks on the phone with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, at the Los Pinos Residence in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico's foreign minister headed for Cairo Tuesday with relatives of some of her country's eight tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces, demanding an urgent enquiry into an 'unjustified attack.' Security forces killed 12 people in Sunday's air attack while chasing jihadis in the vast Western Desert. | PRESIDENCIA DE MEXICO / AFP-JIJI
    Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto speaks on the phone with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, at the Los Pinos Residence in Mexico City on Tuesday. Mexico's foreign minister headed for Cairo Tuesday with relatives of some of her country's eight tourists mistakenly killed by Egyptian security forces, demanding an urgent enquiry into an "unjustified attack." Security forces killed 12 people in Sunday's air attack while chasing jihadis in the vast Western Desert. | PRESIDENCIA DE MEXICO / AFP-JIJI

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MEXICO CITY – Eight Mexicans were killed by Egypt’s army in an apparently mistaken aerial bombing of a tourist convoy, Mexico’s government said on Tuesday, matching the fatality estimates given by security sources in Egypt and a relative of two of the victims.

Mexico’s government had previously confirmed two nationals died in an attack that killed a total of 12 people and wounded 10. It revised its death toll after studying the remains of six victims who had been unaccounted for.

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