 SHARM EL SHEIKH — Egyptian police have taken DNA samples from four Sinai families as they search for the bombers who killed at least 64 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, security sources said yesterday.
"You have to do a brain what to get my DNA?"
"Shut up and stop squirming!" |
Police are trying to match the DNA from the families with the DNA from remains found at the bomb site, on the assumption that some of the bombers were killed.
| "Here, Sam! See if it matches this lip!" |
The families all live in or around the north Sinai town of El Arish, reflecting the investigation’s focus on a possible link between the Sharm El Sheikh bombings and similar attacks on resorts frequented by Israelis last October. The group that bombed the Taba Hilton and two other resorts in October was based in El Arish on the Mediterranean coast — a small town with a mixed population of settled Bedouin, immigrants from the Nile Valley and Palestinian refugees.
"Legume, I think the two bombings might be related!"
"Inspector! How do you do it?" |
The security sources named the four men whose families gave DNA samples as Moussa Badran, Ihab Mohamed Rabia, Osama Al Nakhlawi and Khaled Musaid, all of Bedouin origin. Police already have DNA from another prime suspect — Mohamed Fulayfel, the brother of one of two bombers who died by mistake at the Taba Hilton. Fulayfel is on trial in absentia for his role in the bombings last October.
| "Mohamed Felafel"? That's gotta be an assumed name... |
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