Seven killed in Egypt tour-bus crash

Seven Cypriot tourists were killed when the bus they were travelling in blew a front tyre on a mountain road in Egypt and crashed in a ravine today, police said.

The bus, which was carrying 13 Cypriots, careered off the road that leads to St Catherine’s Monastery in south Sinai, the Cypriot ambassador to Egypt, Phaedon Anastasiou, told the private Cypriot TV channel Ant 1.