EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Two American tourists abducted by Bedouins in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula were released unharmed Thursday following negotiations between local tribesmen and the kidnappers, a security official said.
Officials said the Bedouins snatched the two men early Thursday 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, were riding in a rented car when they were stopped at a roadblock by protesting Bedouins, who were demanding release of one of their tribesmen held by security over a drug trafficking charge, the officials said.
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