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3rd tourist coach crash in as many months

23 Dec 2008
At least six Russian tourists have been killed when their coach overturned on a highway in the Sinai peninsula in eastern Egypt. At least 15 other passengers, some of them also foreigners, were injured when the vehicle flipped over. A number of the injured are in a critical condition in hospital. It was travelling from Dahab on the peninsula's east coast to the resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh at the southern tip. Bad weather has been blamed