Egyptians with Sinai observer force die in crash

ISMAILIA: Nine Egyptians, including eight engineers working for the multinational peace monitoring force in Egypt s Sinai peninsula, have been killed in a road crash, security sources said on Friday. The sources said the deaths occurred on Thursday night after a truck that was crossing a Sinai road collided with two vehicles including a taxi carrying the engineers out of Sinai for a work break. The driver of the taxi was also killed. Officials from the multinational force were not immediately available for comment. The sources said the eight engineers had worked at the Sinai headquarters of the Multinational Force and Observers mission, which was set up to supervise security provisions in the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.