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  • Six Australians feared killed in Egypt

    01/11/2006 1:57:19 AM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 7 replies · 397+ views
    The Age ^ | 11 January 2006
    At least six Australians, including a child, are feared dead after their tour bus crashed outside the Egyptian capital Cairo in bad weather. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said at least 24 people were injured, and it was assumed that those killed and hurt were Australian, or largely Australian. Reuters reported that the fatalities were five males and one woman, and that the injured were taken to Al-Haram hospital. The bus was one of two carrying police officers and their families, from Victoria, Queensland and the Northern Territory, on a goodwill tour. The second bus was not involved in the accident....