Egypt road smash kills 12, including tourists

CAIRO: At least 12 Egyptians and foreign tourists were killed on Monday in a head-on road crash between a tourist bus and a truck in the Sinai peninsula, security sources said.

Seven of the dead were believed to be foreigners, including people from Russia, Ukraine and the Netherlands, the sources said.

A local news agency put the number of foreigners killed at four, and said that five Egyptians had also died including the bus driver. It added that the remains of three more people had been found, but their identity was not clear.

The crash, on the Red Sea coast of the southern Sinai peninsula, also injured 34 people including Egyptians, Britons, Germans, French, Russians, Ukrainians and Poles, the security sources said.