Six Mexican tourists who were wounded when Egyptian security forces mistakenly targeted them in an air and ground attack on Sept. 13, an incident in which eight of their countrymen and four others were killed, landed home Friday morning on board the presidential aircraft in the company of Foreign Relations Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu.

The plane, which also was carrying family members of the victims who had traveled to Cairo with Ruiz Massieu after the incident, arrived at 7:45 a.m. The plane took off from the Arab nation on Thursday, four days after the attack in which Egyptian soldiers and police reportedly mistook the picnicking tourists for terrorists.

The bodies of the slain tourists will be repatriated once the Egyptian prosecutor general's office concludes its forensic investigation. A raised platform was used to help lower the six wounded Mexican citizens, who exited the presidential plane on stretchers or in wheelchairs, from the aircraft. Once the wounded were on the ground, several ambulances and helicopters swiftly transported them to area hospitals.

Medical specialists from Mexico's Health Secretariat attended to the wounded during the flight, while the head of that portfolio, Mercedes Juan Lopez, greeted them upon their arrival at the presidential hangar. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote on Twitter that he had instructed that secretariat to provide the necessary support for the victims' rehabilitation. "The Mexican government will continue to accompany them. We're very pleased to have them back home," he added.

The tourists were targeted last Sunday in an air and ground attack by Egyptian army soldiers and police at a spot near the Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) southwest of Cairo. Four Egyptian tourism workers also died at the hands of the security forces, who, according to the Arab nation, mistook the group for terrorists.