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CAIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Coastal stations have lost contact with a ferry carrying some 1,310 mainly Egyptian passengers from the Saudi port of Jeddah to Safaga on Egypt's Red Sea coast, security sources said on Friday.

The ferry should have reached Safaga at 2 a.m. local time (midnight GMT) but did not arrive, they said.


5 posted on 02/03/2006 2:23:48 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian maritime officials say lifeboats containing people have been spotted in vicinity of where cruise liner was last seen on radar.


10 posted on 02/03/2006 2:25:55 AM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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