Monday, July 25 2005 15:43 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Sharm el-Sheik: Egyptian police are searching for six Pakistani men, who were in Sharm el-Sheik during the attacks that killed 88 people and have since disappeared, investigators said today (July 25, 2005).

The investigators, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the probe, said the six men might have had a direct role in carrying out Saturday's (July 23, 2005) three bomb blasts or in planning the attack, Egypt's deadliest ever.

Police announced that they have also found the remains, of what they believe may be a Pakistani man at the Ghazala Gardens Hotel, where a suicide car bomb attack was carried out early Saturday (July 23, 2005), said the investigators, adding that DNA tests are to be carried out.

The photographs of six missing Pakistani men, who were staying at a Sharm hotel and had left their passports at the reception, have been circulated at police checkpoints in this southern Sinai Peninsula resort city.

Police did not say which hotel the men were staying at, but stressed that it was not that the bomb-ravaged Ghazala in Naama Bay.

The two other blasts rocked a car park near to the hotel and an area about three km away called the Old Market.