Tourist death on the Nile

A British holidaymaker died when a tourist yacht capsized on the River Nile during a heavy storm, which also claimed the lives of several others in southern Egypt earlier this week.

The man was reportedly on a cruise with his wife and two tourists from India and Canada when their boat was hit by heavy wind and rain as it sailed close to the tourist town of Aswan.

The three other holidaymakers survived but two Egyptian women were killed when the yacht sank.

Several more people were killed in flash floods across the country. One woman drowned in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada when floods swept her off the main road, and many people are known to be missing in the popular tourist resort of Sharm el Sheikh where communication lines were bought down by the storm.

Sharm's airport was hit by the storm while British holidaymakers were waiting inside for flights back to the UK.

Writing at Times Online, one woman on holiday with Thomson (www.thomson.co.uk) said part of the airport's glass roof came in and rain poured through the ceiling, causing electrical fires to break out in the terminal building.

She claimed Thomson had written to guests apologising for the inconvenience.

Elsewhere in Egypt and Israel homes and cars were swept away by the sudden rain. One woman drowned when her car was caught in a flash flood in Israel and flash floods overcame dams in northern Sinai. One man drowned in the city of al-Arish.

Digg    Reddit    Facebook    Tweet This