Egyptian police said on Monday they arrested three people suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Cairo bazaar that killed a French teenager and wounded 25 others, most of them tourists. The bomb, which police say was a rudimentary explosive, killed a 17-year-old French girl and wounded 25 people, most of them French tourists.
Earlier reports said four people had been killed but police later revised the number to only one.
Three men were rounded up immediately after the Sunday evening attack in the landmark Khan al-Khalili bazaar. "Three people there were arrested on the site as suspects after the attack," a police official said. "Others are being questioned as witnesses."
The dead 17-year-old French girl was part of a tour group of 54 teenagers from the Paris region who were on a trip to buy souvenirs in the market before heading home on Monday. "There was a very powerful explosion. Then screams and blood. We all started running," said Romy Janiw, 28, one of the seven adults accompanying the teenagers.