An Egyptian medical official says a speeding van overturned and killed two foreign tourists, one of them French, on their way to a Red Sea resort city
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The head of South Sinai Emergency Services, Mohammed Fayez, said the tourists: a 30-year-old female and 34-year-old male, were heading early Sunday to the Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.
The official described them both as French, but the embassy itself said only the man was a French national.
The accident took place 10 miles (15 kilometers) from Ras Sudr, east of Cairo where an Italian tourist was killed and four other people injured a day earlier in a van speeding down the highway.
Fayez says the van overturned Saturday on the ring-road around the resort town shortly after nightfall.
Fayez says four tourists — from Japan, Germany and Italy — and the van's driver were injured. He says that one other tourist — a 27-year old Italian woman — later died in the hospital from head injuries.
Road accidents are common in Egypt because of bad roads and poor law enforcement. An estimated 6,000 people die in accidents in the country each year.
