Germany's government has taken the lead trying to negotiate the release of a group of 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians abducted in the southern Egyptian desert and taken to neighboring Sudan, authorities said Tuesday.
The tourists, including five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian, were safe but being held against an undisclosed ransom demand, tourism minister Mohamed Zoheir Garana told Egyptian TV.
"We are coordinating fully with the Sudanese government to find out the location of the kidnappers," he said. 
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