A GROUP of 19 foreign tourists and Egyptians kidnapped at gunpoint by bandits while on a desert safari in a remote corner of southwestern Egypt have been freed, Egypt`s foreign minister said today.
"They have been released, all of them, safe and sound," Ahmed Abul Gheit said during a meeting with his US counterpart Condoleezza Rice on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, which opens tomorrow.
The captives were released near the Libyan-Sudanese-Egyptian border, he said.
