Egyptians seize 25 Chinese



CAIRO  - Egyptian Bedouins on Tuesday captured 25 Chinese workers in Sinai to demand the release of relatives detained over bombings in the peninsula between 2004 and 2006, a security official said. The Chinese nationals, technicians and engineers who work for a military-owned cement factory in the Lehfen area of central Sinai, were abducted on their way to work, the official said. "The Chinese will not be released until our demands our met," one Bedouin protester told AFP. The protesters are demanding the release of five Bedouins held in connection with an attack on the tourist resort of Taba in 2004. They say the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has repeatedly promised to release the Bedouins.

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