Cairo - Agencies
Two American women kidnapped by gunmen in Egypt\'s Sinai Peninsula on Friday were released into army custody hours after they were seized, security sources said. The two tourists were among a party of five traveling from Saint Catherine\'s monastery in central Sinai to the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh when a vehicle carrying men armed with machine guns stopped their small bus, the sources said. The gunmen were apparently seeking a ransom, they said.