2 U.S. Tourists Kidnapped

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 4:25PM EDT / Published Jul. 13, 2012 12:15PM EDT

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An American man and woman were reportedly abducted on Friday along with their Egyptian tour guide in the mountains of Sabr el-Hitan, in the Sinai Peninsula. According to local officials, the kidnapper is a local Bedouin, who may have performed the kidnapping in a desperate bid to have his uncle released from custody in Alexandria. U.S. embassy spokesman David Lynnfield told the Associated Press that the embassy is investigating the disappearance. In a similar incident this May, two Americans were abducted in the Sinai Peninsula by Bedouin gunmen. The pair was eventually released.

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2 U.S. Tourists Kidnapped

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