Cairo: Family of Egypt’s iconic guitarist Omar Khurshed has announced accepting condolences over his death nearly 40 years after he was killed in a car crash in Cairo.
His brother Ihab has made the announcement, suggesting that Safwat Al Sharif, Egypt’s ex-information minister who died last week, stood behind the famous musician’s death.
Al Sharif was a prominent official in the era of late president Hosni Mubarak who resigned in 2011 after a popular revolt against his rule. Al Sharif was also the chairman of the Shura Council under Mubarak and an intelligence officer in the 1960s.
Omar was killed in May 1981 after an anonymous car hit into his car on the famous Pyramid Road, witnesses said at the time. He was 36. The case was later closed due to lack of evidence.