Czech tourists being evacuated from Taba in wake of missile strike

The Čedok travel agency is evacuating around 500 Czech tourists from the Egyptian resort of Taba on the Red Sea, where a rocket hit a medical facility during the night, Czech Foreign Ministry spokesman Daniel Drake told the ctk news agency. According to Čedok all its clients there are safe and are receiving information about transfers to the airport. They are being evacuated on charter flights as a precautionary measure. Jan Papež, vice-chairman of the Association of Travel Agencies of the Czech Republic, said that he has no information at the moment that any other domestic travel agency has clients in the area.