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MANAMA (Reuters) - Passengers aboard a Gulf Air Airbus A320 which crashed into the sea off Bahrain Wednesday were mostly Arab nationals, including 63 Egyptians, an airline official said. The Gulf Air official said that among the 143 people, including eight crew members, on the doomed plane en route to Manama from Cairo were 63 Egyptians, 34 Bahrainis, 12 Saudi Arabians, nine Palestinians, six UAE nationals, one Kuwaiti and one Omani.