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Two American tourists abducted in Egypt's Sinai region are freed Monday after three days in captivity.

A Bedouin tribesman kidnapped a U.S. pastor, an American woman and their Egyptian tour guide on Friday to protest the jailing of his uncle on drug charges.

Bedouins have taken hostages to show their discontent with what they see as their poor treatment by Cairo.

Michel Louis, the pastor of a church in Massachusetts, was traveling to Israel on an annual trip to retrace the steps of Jesus when his tour bus was ambushed. Lisa Alphonse, was also taken in the ambush.

Deborah Lutterbeck, Reuters