Egypt: 2 American Tourists Are Freed After Being Seized in Sinai Peninsula

Two American tourists abducted by Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula were released unharmed on Thursday after negotiations between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, a security official said. Security officials said the Bedouins seized the two men earlier in the day as they were traveling by car from Dahab to Nuweiba, resort towns on the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba. The two men, in their 30s, had been stopped at a roadblock by protesting Bedouins, who were demanding the release of one of their tribesmen detained in connection with a drug trafficking charge, the officials said. A security official said the authorities later released the tribesman.