- CAIRO: An Egyptian medical official says a speeding van overturned and killed two foreign tourists, one of them French, on their way to a Red Sea resort city.
The head of South Sinai Emergency Services, Mohammed Fayez, said the tourists, a 30-year-old female and 34-year-old male, were heading early Sunday to the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
The official described them both as French, but the embassy itself said only the man was a French national.
The accident took place 15 km from Ras Sudr, east of Cairo where an Italian tourist was killed and four other people injured a day earlier.
Road accidents are common in Egypt because of bad roads and poor law enforcement. An estimated 6,000 people die in accidents in the country each year.