ISMAILIA - Egypt's interior minister will free a further 10 Bedouin detainees, state media and security sources said late Saturday, part of government efforts to ease long-running tensions in the Sinai Peninsula. Cairo has released some 200 Bedouins since Interior Minister Habib el-Adly met with tribal leaders in July to explore ways of bringing calm to the area, the sources said. In June, tribesmen angry at heavy-handed security tactics set tyres ablaze near a pipeline supplying natural gas to Syria and Jordan. The state responded with a change in tactics, including the release of some detained Bedouin. But some unrest has continued. Armed and masked Bedouin tribesmen hijacked a bus in late July from an industrial area in central Sinai. The latest decision to free detainees coincided with Eid al-Fitr, which ends the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, and "in the framework of the efforts being made to free all Bedouin detainees," the official Middle East News Agency (MENA) said. Police rounded up thousands of Bedouin after a series of bombings at tourist resorts in south Sinai in 2004-06.