Cairo  - Eight German tourists and an Egyptian tour guide were injured when a tourist bus overturned Wednesday near the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan, according to security sources.

The accident took place after the front tyre burst as the bus was driving on the Aswan-Abu Simbel road as the tourists were returning from a visit to the temple of Ramses II and Nefertari.

Sources added that the injured were moved to a military hospital in Aswan. (dpa)