Dahab, 25 April (AKI) - Egyptian police arrested ten people on Tuesday in connection with the terrorist attacks on the resort of Dahab in the Sinai peninsula which killed at least 23 people and wounded 70, reports said citing local security forces. Most of the dead were Egyptians enjoying a Spring holiday at the seaside resort. A German boy was among the foreigners killed. The wounded included Britons, French, a Palestinian, an Israeli, an American and three Italians, reports said.The three explosions in Dahab on Monday night were probably from time bombs planted on the ground rather than carried by suicide bombers, security officials told Reuters on Tuesday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts.
Reports however said Islamic militant groups based in the Sinai might be responsible for the attacks aimed at destabilising the local economy and the regime of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Local militant groups are believed to be behind the attacks on the Hilton hotel in the resort of Taba, north of Dahab, in October 2004 and on the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the south in July last year.
Additional: Dahab, 25 April (AKI) - Investigations into the attack at the Dahab tourism resort in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula continued on Tuesday as police tried to ascertain who was behind the terrorism act. At least 23 people were killed - including three foreigners - and 70 wounded in the attack on Monday night. Though at first investigators said remote control bombs caused the three explosions that rocked a restaurant, a cafe and a supermarket popular with tourists, in the past few hours the hypothesis that suicide bombers caused at least two of the three explosions reportedly gained new momentum.