NZers phone home from Egypt following blasts

New Zealanders holidaying in Egypt have phoned home to tell family they weren't affected by blasts which killed at least 30 people in a popular holiday area there.

More than 100 people were also wounded in the three blasts, which ripped through the Red Sea town of Dahab early today (NZT).

New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Mfat) spokeswoman Helen Tunnah this morning said there had so far been no reports of any New Zealanders caught up in the blasts.

She said New Zealanders in Egypt had been calling home to reassure family.

Mfat was keeping in touch with the British Embassy in Egypt, which was sending representatives to Dahab.

"We will be liaising with them - and through our post in Riyadh," Ms Tunnah said.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said it was a terrorist attack and has pledged to track down those responsible.

- NZPA