A post template

No image available
/ 8 April 2003

29 tourists ‘vanish’ in Sahara

At least 29 foreign tourists have vanished in the Sahara in little more than six weeks, the German police say. The disappearance of a first group went unreported for several weeks, and since then the total has been growing at irregular intervals as one party after another has gone missing in the sparsely populated south of Algeria.