Egyptian puts seriously burned daughter on US flight

Cairo — The Egyptian father of a 16-year-old girl, who was discovered on a JFK-bound flight with 40 percent burns on her body, has said he had no choice as he couldn’t find medical help in his country. According to a report in the NY Daily News, the girl, identified as Aiyah Abdelhalim, started screaming halfway through the EgyptAir flight from Cairo after her pain medication wore off. The man, Ibrahim Abdelhalim, told the newspaper that Aiyah, a US citizen, was injured on Sept. 30 in a gas explosion at her home and that the US Embassy in Egypt had been of little assistance for Aiyah, or his own efforts to travel to America to join her. — Agencies