The German foreign minister Frank Walter-Steinmeier has confirmed that a group of eleven European tourists who were kidnapped 10 days ago in the Egyptian desert have been released.
A military helicopter has flown the five Germans, five Italians, a Romanian and eight Egyptian drivers and tour guides to Cairo for medical examinations. The state news agency MENA quoted Egyptian Defence Minister Hussein Tantawi as saying that half of the kidnappers had been killed in the operation to free the hostages. Egypt's Tourism Minister Kidnapped tourists arrive near Cairo ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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