[An Nahar] Egyptian Bedouin in the Sinai kidnapped two Brazilian women tourists on Sunday in the third such abduction in the peninsula this year, security officials said.The tourists were returning from a visit to the historic monastery of St Catherine in southern Sinai when the rustics seized them and an Egyptian tour guide, the officials said.
They gave conflicting accounts of the tourists' ages. They had earlier said both were teenagers, but a police official said one was 18 and the other 40 years old.
A police official said one of the kidnappers was the father of a man sentenced to prison on drugs and weapons charges, and that he wanted his son's release.
The two armed Bedouin stopped a tour bus containing 38 tourists and kidnapped the two women and a guide at gunpoint, before driving off with them towards the peninsula's mountains, another police official said.