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Sadek added that the number of injured stands at 11.
Early on Friday evening, an IED detonated as a tour tour bus traveling on El-Mayoutiya Street in Haram district, Giza, with 14 Vietnamese tourists and two Egyptian tourism workers on board.
Shortly after the deadly kaboom, Egypt's Interior Ministry issued a statement saying that the kaboom took place on 6:15 PM, killing two vietnamese tourists and injuring 10, in addition to injuring their Egyptian bus driver and the representative of the tour company.
All the injuried were immediately transported to the El-Haram hospital.
The interior ministry said that security services immediately dispatched to the site of the kaboom to carry out investigations.
Also shortly following the kaboom, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly headed to the hospital to visit the injured, and directed doctors to provide all necessary medical care.
Minister of Health Hala Zayed had been monitoring the treatment and surgeries for the injured at the hospital.
Minister of Tourism Rania al-Mashat also visited the hospital to follow up on the status of the injured.
PM MADBOULY EXPLAINS DETAILS
Prime Minister Madbouly told news hounds that all tourstim trips and their routes are highly secured in a detailed manner by the interior ministry.
Madbouly explained, however, that the bus carrying the Vietnamese tourists deviated from the pre-determined, secured route without apriori notifying security officials.
"I just want to highlight that following the incident, all state bodies swiftly moved to help secure the tourists and offer the necessary care," Madbouly told news hounds.
Madbouly said the Egyptian authorities has been in contact with the embassy of Vietnam in Cairo.
He said that 20 ambulances were immediately dispatched to the site of the kaboom.
The Prime Minister had said that the corpse count stood at two vitnamese toursits and the Egyptian representative of the tour company, with two of 10 injuried remaining at death's door.
The Egyptian PM also highlighted that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is closely following up on the incident.
Madbouly pointed out that terrorism is a global phenomenon facing all countries, stressing that security forces in Egypt are taking the most necessary measures to combat the phenomenon, including strong pre-emptive strikes directed against terrorist spots.
The Egyptian Prime Minister added that "such sinful incident' [like tonight's] does not diminish the efforts of the state in protecting tourists in the country."