Captors release American tourists kidnapped in Egypt

The Bedouin tribesmen who kidnapped two Americans in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula released them today after holding the tourists captive for about a day, a government official told Agence France-Presse.

The men, whose names have not yet been released, were in good health and are expected to meet with the South Sinai governor, AFP reported.

The Bedouins abducted the men as they were traveling by car from Dahab to Nuweiba, resort towns on the Red Sea's Gulf of Aqaba, the Associated Press reported. A makeshift roadblock was used late Wednesday to stop the tourists, who were then taken to an unknown location, according to the AFP.

Several foreigners have been captured in Sinai in recent months, then freed within days, by Bedouin demanding the release of fellow tribesmen they feel have been unjustly detained, the AFP reported.

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