Four Mexican tourists are killed and 17 injured, two of them critically, in a bus accident on Friday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the governor of South Sinai said.<br/> <br />The tourists were travelling on a bus owned by a local tour company near Saint Catherine's monastery in central Sinai when their bus overturned and caught fire, according to medical and security sources.<br/> <br />At least 40 tourists, all from Mexico, were inside, the state news agency MENA reported.<br/> <br />The injured tourists were transferred to three hospitals in the area, governor Khaled Fouda said. He said they had been travelling to the monastery, a popular tourist destination, from the town of Taba, which borders Israel.<br/> <br />The 2011 uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak and the turmoil that followed has dented Egypt's tourism sector - a major employer and source of foreign currency which accounted for more than 10 percent of gross domestic product before 2011.<br/> <br />The sector has been further damaged by ki
