(Raises death toll) CAIRO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Seven Belgian tourists were killed and 28 people -- 25 Belgians and three Egyptians -- injured when their coach overturned in southern Egypt on Friday, hospital sources said. The accident took place about 40 km (25 miles) north of Abu Simbel, the site of two temples dating from the time of the Pharaoh Ramses II, as they travelled from the southern city of Aswan, the state news agency MENA said. The injured have been taken to hospitals in Abu Simbel and Cairo and six of them underwent surgery, MENA said, quoting the provincial governor. The Egyptian armed forces sent aircraft to move the severely injured to Cairo. "The driver said the coach overturned because of a steering wheel malfunction," the governor said. The United Nations moved the two Abu Simbel temples to higher ground in the 1960s to save them from rising water when the Aswan High Dam was built. They are the most popular tourist destination in Egypt south of Aswan. Traffic accidents with high death tolls are common in Egypt, mainly because of bad driving and poor vehicle maintenance. (Writing by Jonathan Wright, editing by Catherine Bosley)
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