Russian airlines are sending empty planes to Egypt to rescue stranded travellers. <br /><br /> Russia’s deputy prime minister said the number of Russian tourists in Egypt is around 80,000, according to the RIA news agency.<br /><br /> Some passengers said that they don’t know what’s going to happen to their luggage. <br /><br /> “They said that we shouldn’t take any baggage with us on board, so we have to keep it somewhere, I don’t know where, put our addresses and then they will somehow transport it to Russia to our homes, but how, who will do it, I don’t know. I will say goodbye to my baggage,” said tourist <br />Julia Suvrova.<br /><br /> “I feel safe, saod Alexander Nevzozov, “but some people talking about … there are some dangers, but I don’t think so.”<br /><br /> Russia’s tourism agency said 1,200 tourists had returned home and future flights would be leaving Egypt without hold luggage. <br /><br /> Most people due to visit Egypt in the coming days had agreed to instead fly to Turkey.
