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Explosion at Cairo Tourist Bazaar Kills 1 | |
2005-04-07 | |
CAIRO, Egypt - An explosion went off at a bazaar popular with tourists near Cairo's al-Azhar mosque Thursday, killing one person and wounding eight, police said. It appeared that at least some tourists were among the wounded, police officials said. Their nationalities were not yet known. Police did not rule out the possibility that the blast was an accident, but they also were investigating reports that it was caused by a person on a motorcycle, official said.
The last major attacks came in late 1997. In September that year, two gunmen fired automatic rifles at a tour bus parked outside the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, killing 10 people mostly German tourists. A month later, militants killed 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians in an attack at a pharaonic temple in Luxor, southern Egypt. Last October, explosions hit several hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, including one in the resort of Taba that killed 34 people and was linked by Egyptian authorities to Israeli-Palestinian violence. | |
Posted by:Steve |
#1 What is the sound of chicken coming home to roost? In ME, it seems to be, definitely, a boom. |
Posted by: Sobiesky 2005-04-07 9:07:17 PM |