The 19 released Western tourists and their Egyptian guides arrived in Cairo on Monday after being kidnapped last week by a group of gunmen in southern Egypt and then moved to Sudan and Libya, the official MENA news agency reported.
The 11 tourists and eight Egyptians who were kidnapped last week from an Upper Egyptian area, have been released without paying any ransom, MENA quoted an Egyptian official source as saying.
The source said all the released hostages are in good health condition and high morale, and they were all carried by an airplane to Cairo.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak expressed happiness over the release of the 19 hostages who have been kidnapped by four masked gunmen during a safari trip in the southern Egyptian desert.
On Sunday, the Sudanese army said that six of the kidnappers who abducted the group of tourists were killed during a clash in Jabal Owainat area on the Sudanese border.
The kidnappers took the abductees to Sudan, then to Libya, but their final whereabouts were not clear.
Among the 11 abducted foreign tourists, five were Germans, five Italians and one Romanian.
Source: Xinhua
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