A TOUR bus slammed into a truck in southern Egypt yesterday, killing eight American tourists and injuring 21 others in the latest fatal crash involving tourists, the state news agency said.

Eight tourists have been killed and 21 others injured when their bus smashed into a truck in southern Egypt today.

ANNE MICHAELS is fascinated by emigration. Daughter of a Polish father and Canadian mother, she was born in Toronto in 1958, and lives there still. But she has become increasingly aware that few of her generation live in the place where they were born.

Six tourists were killed and 26 injured in an Egyptian bus crash today.