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Hour-Long Rescue Frees Spanish Tourist From Bent Pyramid After Foot Fracture

The episode renews scrutiny of safety inside Dahshur’s tight corridors, with no changes to visitor access announced.

Overview

  • Emergency teams reached the woman about 80 meters below the surface through a passage roughly one meter wide and one meter high set at a 26-degree incline.
  • Two paramedics, identified by Egypt’s Ambulance Organization as Ahmed Ali Hamouda and Ali Hassan Abdel Majeed, immobilized her fractured foot with a rigid board and belt before securing her to a stretcher.
  • Rescuers, sometimes crawling, carried her through the narrow ramps in an operation that lasted about an hour, then transferred her to an ambulance for further care.
  • The fall occurred on a wooden ramp inside the Bent Pyramid at Dahshur, about 40 kilometers south of Cairo, and the woman was accompanied by her husband.
  • The incident has revived public questions over permitting entry to confined interior spaces of the monument, though authorities have not announced policy changes.