Heavy rains and flash floods left seven people dead in Egypt and Israel on Monday, including a British tourist who was killed when a sailboat capsized on the Nile River. Egyptian police said the British tourist was with three companions on a Nile sailboat cruise when their boat overturned in heavy winds and sudden rain. The three others, including the victim's wife, survived.

The other two in the boat were an Indian and a Canadian tourists, according to Major General Nagi al-Hassi, security chief in the southern city of Aswan. The heavy rains also washed away a dozen mud brick homes in southern Egypt and killed two women there, He added. In the renowned monument city of Luxor, just to the north, the bad weather caused power failures in several neighbourhoods and disrupted Nile cruises, sailboat and ferry schedules.

Copyright Associated Press, 2010