Warning issued to 40,000 UK tourists as Cairo massacre death toll passes 500
Don't leave your hotels, Britons in Egypt are told:
British holidaymakers at Red Sea resorts have been confined to their hotels as Egypt lurches closer to civil war.
More than 40,000 UK tourists are in the strife-torn country, most of them at popular beach destinations such as Sharm El Sheikh.
But as the official death toll from Wednesday’s massacre in Cairo passed 500, the Foreign Office upgraded its travel warning to say that local police have advised tourists to remain within their hotel grounds.
Although the resorts are hundreds of miles from the capital, diving trips and excursions have been halted temporarily amid fears that bloody clashes between security forces and supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood will spread.
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