Hostages freed

The 15 tourist who were kidnapped earlier this week have been released. Jerusalem Post

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Monday evening said 11 European tourists taken hostage in a remote part of Egypt were released unharmed.

The foreign minister said the group was captured by "gangsters." He did not say how he knew of their release, or whether a ransom was paid. Aboul Gheit spoke briefly to US reporters while in New York for the annual gathering of the United Nations General Assembly.

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An Egyptian official in Aswan said that authorities in the Nile-side city were trying to determine the circumstances of the abduction. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

According to reports, the group may have been taken across the border to Sudan.