A principal suspect wanted for the Luxor massacre in Egypt a year ago has been extradited to Egypt from Ecuador.

The Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, said the man, named as Mohamed Abid Abdel Aal, is believed to have masterminded the attack, in which fifty-eight foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.

He was turned over to Ecuador last week by the Colombian state police.

They identified him as a leader of the Egyptian Islamic militant group al-Gamaa al-Islamiya which said it carried out the massacre.