Eight US tourists have been killed and 21 people injured after their coach hit a stationary truck in southern Egypt.
The bus, which was carrying 37 tourists from the US, was headed to the ancient Egyptian Abu Simbel temples when it struck the damaged truck parked on the side of the road,.
A police official said six of the dead were women. The bus driver and a tourist guide were also injured in the crash, which occurred early in the morning about 30km from Aswan.
Four tourists are in critical condition, the police official said, adding that the injured were taken to a military hospital in Aswan.
79 tourists on board two other buses in the convoy were unharmed, news agency MENA reported.
