Veteran Egyptian artist, Ashraf Abdel Ghafour, died at the age of 81, after being killed in a traffic accident on a highway. This unfortunate incident brings back the stories of some artists who died as a result of similar accidents.
According to local media reports, the security services in the Egyptian Giza Governorate revealed the details of the collision that resulted in the death of Abdel Ghafour, as the officers of the October 1st Department received a report from Zayed Specialized Hospital about the arrival of both the late artist and his wife, who had various fractures and bruises on the body.
Investigations and inspection revealed that while Abdel Ghafour was traveling in a private car on the “ring road towards the oases”, a car driven by a visual artist collided with them from behind, which led to the complete destruction of the back of Abdel Ghafour’s car, and the front of the car causing it.
The late Ashraf Abdel Ghafour and his daughter, the famous actress Reham
The car that committed the accident and its driver were seized, and the security services are intensifying their investigations.
George Al Rassi
Among the Arab artists who died in traffic accidents was the Lebanese singer, George Al Rassi, who was killed at dawn on August 27 of last year, as a result of a traffic accident in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon on the border with Syria.
The Lebanese artist George Al Rassi was killed in a traffic accident
The official Lebanese National News Agency reported that Al-Rassi, who was 39 years old, “died after his car collided with a median barrier in the Al-Masnaa neighborhood, at the dividing point between the Lebanese and Syrian borders, while he was coming from the Syrian border.”
Pictures published on Lebanese websites showed a black car severely damaged as a result of the collision with a cement barrier.
Yasser Al-Masry
The Jordanian artist Yasser Al-Masry is one of the most famous Arab artists who died in traffic accidents. He died on August 23, 2018.
Al-Masry died at the age of 48, following a visit he made to his mother in the city of Zarqa in northern Jordan.
Upon his return to his home, he stopped to help one of his neighbors repair a car, and when he started driving it, he lost control of it and it went down a slope and collided with a wall.
Al-Masry participated in many Jordanian, Egyptian, and Gulf series, such as “Dahsha” and “Al-Ahed.”
Omar Khorshid.. accident and rumours
In May 1981, the Egyptian guitarist and composer, Omar Khorshid, had finished working in a nightclub on Al Haram Street in Cairo, and then got into his car with his wife.
According to her testimony, he was surprised by a car chasing him and those inside cursing him, until he collided with a barrier in the middle of the road, and his body flew out of the car and died.
Rumors surrounded Khurshid’s death and the identity of the unknown persecutors, and many of those rumors indicated that the incident was “deliberate.”
Musician Omar Khorshid Asmahan
The famous Syrian artist, Asmahan (Amal Al-Atrash), who was the most prominent competitor of the legend of Arab singing, Umm Kulthum, also passed away in a traffic accident amidst many rumors that it was “planned by an actor.”
On July 14, 1944, the artist was on her way to the Ras El-Bar resort in Egypt to spend a short vacation, after she asked permission from the dean of Arab theater, Youssef Wehbe, to take a break from filming the movie “Love and Revenge.”
On the way, her car fell into a “canal” (water canal) near the city of Talkha, announcing the death of the artist Asmahan at the age of 31. Rumors also surrounded the cause of the accident, so her death remains a mystery whose clues have not yet been revealed.
Salah Abdel Ghafour
On April 8, 2013, Iraqi artistic circles held the funeral of the late artist Salah Abdel Ghafour, who passed away following a traffic accident on the highway in the city of Erbil, as a result of his car colliding with a speeding car.
Abdul Ghafour descends from Kurdish roots. He was born in 1953, and his birthplace is the city of Saadiya in Diyala Governorate, east of the capital, Baghdad.
Salah Abdel Ghafour
His first appearance was in an artistic competition program called “Amateur Corner,” and he attracted attention through his performances of difficult Iraqi Maqam genres, especially in the songs of the icon of Iraqi art, Nazem Al-Ghazali.
The late artist was famous for the song “How are you, how are you, how are you?” which spread widely in the Arab world.
Rami Shamali… “predicted” his death
As for the young Lebanese artist Rami Chemali, who was one of the stars of the “Star Academy” program, he died in Egypt in a traffic accident in 2010.
Shamali was riding in the car with his colleague on the program, Mahmoud Shukri, when the steering wheel misfired and crossed the opposite road, colliding with another.
In a recorded conversation between Shamali and the professor of theater in the Star Academy program, Michel Jabr, and in front of his companions, the late young man narrated a nightmare that has haunted him since his childhood from time to time, which is that he is in a car with one of his companions who is driving, and that they are subjected to a slide, and then he sees nothing but Pitch black.
Shamali narrated his nightmare and cried, and his companions cried with him because, according to what he told him, he is afraid of this nightmare, and fears everything that is unknown and that he will not achieve his ambitions. Rami cried without knowing that he was crying for his fate and himself, according to the newspaper “The Middle East“London.
