Attacks target Cairo tourists

Attacks target Cairo tourists
CAIRO, Two militants were killed and 10, including four foreigners, injured following two attacks against foreign tourists in the Egyptian capital today, police said. Within two hours of a bomb blast near the Egyptian Museum, two women fired at a tour bus — part of a recent spate of violence involving attacks on foreigners.

At least two people were killed — apparently the man carrying the bomb who police said jumped off the bridge and one of the shooters. An interior ministry statement identified the man killed in the explosion as Ehab Yousri Yassin, and said he jumped from the bridge during a pursuit, setting off the bomb he was carrying.

He was being chased as a suspect in a 7 April bombing targeting foreigners near a tourist bazaar, it said. Police suspect that the two women involved in the shooting were Yassin’s relatives. Those wounded in the explosion were identified as three Egyptians, an Israeli couple, a Swedish man and an Italian woman.