World Bulletin / News Desk

Egyptian judicial officials said on Saturday they have detained an Italian tourist who allegedly beat to death an engineer supervising work at a Red Sea hotel.

Egypt's tourism ministry had said in a statement that the Italian had been in the company of his two children, aged six and 15, at a beachfront hotel under construction in the Marsa Alam resort when the engineer told him it was off limits.

The authorities were coordinating with Italian missions in Egypt to repatriate the two children, the ministry said.