Three Italians reported dead in Sinai road accident, 5 injured

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Three Italian tourists died Friday when their minibus overturned on a coastal road in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, police and hospital officials said. Three other Italians and two Egyptians - the group's driver and the tourist guide - were injured in the late evening accident near the Red Sea resort of Dahab, 380 kilometers southeast of Cairo, police said. Ibrahim Ali, chief of South Sinai's medical emergency unit, said the injured were taken to the hospital in the nearby tourist resort of Sharm El-Sheik. He said two of the five were in serious condition. In Rome, the Italian foreign ministry confirmed the accident, saying that the Italians' vehicle had overturned near Dahab. The ministry said two of the deceased were women while the third was a man. The victims' names were not released.