Cairo - German officials are negotiating with the kidnappers of 11 tourists and eight Egyptians who went missing on Friday in Egypt's southern desert during a safari trip, sources in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism said on Tuesday.

Negotiations for the release of the eleven Europeans, including five Germans, five Italians, a Romanian, and the eight Egyptian guides, are ongoing, said the sources, who declined to give their names.

The German Foreign Ministry set up a crisis team immediately after reports of abduction surfaced on Monday afternoon, German officials said.

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Cairo  - Eleven tourists kidnapped in southern Egypt were released Monday, Egyptian Tourism Minister Zuheir Garana said.

The five Italians, five Germans and a Romanian had been kidnapped while on a Safari near the city of Aswan and had been taken to Sudan.

Garana said that the tourists were released without payment of any ransom.

Cairo  - Eleven tourists kidnapped during a safari trip in southern Egypt and apparently kidnapped when they strayed over the Sudanese border were freed and heading towards Aswan, an unconfirmed report said Monday.

A local authority spokesperson in the region, who declined to be identified, said the tourists from Germany, Italy and Romania - along with eight Egyptian safari staff - had been attacked at the weekend.

Cairo  - Fifteen tourists were kidnapped in Upper Egypt on Monday, with Egyptian authorities now in touch with kidnappers to try to negotiate their release, latest media reports said.

The latest reports said that the 15 included five Germans, five Italians, four Egyptians and one Romanian national.

The kidnapped were on a safari trip when they were seized by four masked men.

In both Berlin and Rome, the respective foreign ministries confirmed that their nationals were among the kidnap victims.

Cairo  - Up to 15 foreign tourists, including a number of Italians and possibly also Israelis, have been kidnapped in Egypt, the television broadcaster Al-Arabiya reported Monday.