Cairo - Twelve tourists were killed and 34 injured as their bus collided with a truck in the Egyptian peninsula of south Sinai on Monday.

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Cairo - The number of people confirmed dead as a result of Saturday's rockslide in Cairo reached 75 and is feared likely to climb, six days after hundreds of tons of limestone came crashing down upon the Doweiqa neighbourhood, Egyptian security sources said.

On Saturday, eight rocks, weighing between 100 and 500 tons, separated from the cliff face and crashed down on some 35 houses lying at the foot of Moqattam hill in a massive shanty town Manshiet Nasser on the edge of the Egyptian capital.

Cairo  - The body of an Israeli woman who had been "tortured" was found in a hotel compound in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Nuweiba, Egyptian security sources said Wednesday.

Cairo  - Around 1000 Bedouin in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula participated in the second day of a growing protest on Wednesday, calling on police to release 14 of their members, security forces said.

Angry protestors in Mahdyia village, near Egypt's border crossing into Gaza at Rafah, collaborated with Bedouin from nearby villages, burning car tires and chanting slogans in support of the detainees, whom they said had been held without due cause.

The demonstrators also blocked the Rafah-Gaza border-crossing road.

Cairo  - As rescuers teams continue to remove huge rocks that toppled from a hillside and flattened dozens of houses in a Cairo shantytown, many Egyptians are blaming the government for ignoring warnings of a disaster waiting to happen.

Egyptian bloggers have been at the forefront in describing the aftermath of last Saturday's disaster below Moqattam hill which claimed at least 51 lives and left 57 injured.