Three Qatari diplomats killed en route Gaza ceasefire summit

Three Qatari diplomats were killed and two others injured on Saturday when their vehicle overturned on a road about 50 kilometers from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh as they were traveling to a global summit to finalize a Gaza ceasefire agreement, Qatar’s embassy in Egypt said. The crash occurred a day before the planned meeting, which was to bring together international leaders to mark progress on a truce between Israel and Hamas.

Qatar’s embassy posted on social media that three employees of the Amiri Diwan, the Qatari government’s top administrative body, were killed and two wounded in the accident. The embassy said the injured were receiving medical treatment in Sharm el-Sheikh’s hospital and that the bodies and the injured “would be repatriated later on Sunday to Doha.” Two security sources said the vehicle overturned as it rounded a curve on the road to the city.

The diplomats were part of Qatar’s protocol team traveling ahead of a high-level summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. The meeting was intended to build on indirect talks held earlier in the week involving officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkey that contributed to an agreement between Israel and Hamas on the first...