Iran Press/ Africa: Egypt's interior ministry said that bombing in Giza, near capital Cairo, killed three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian guide, and injuring almost a dozen others.
An explosion struck a bus carrying Vietnamese tourists in Giza around 6:15pm local time on Friday, Egypt's interior ministry said in a statement, according to Iran Press.
The bomb was planted on the roadside of Al Haram Mariotia Street in Giza, southwest of Cairo, the authorities said.
Egypt's interior ministry confirmed that two Vietnamese tourists were killed when a roadside bomb went off, while the state prosecutor's office said a third tourist died in hospital later.
At least 10 other Vietnamese tourists, as well as an Egyptian bus driver, were also hurt in the blast, Egypt's interior ministry said.
Fourteen Vietnamese tourists were travelling on the bus at the time of the explosion, it said.
No group took responsibility for the blast that kills three Vietnamese tourists near Cairo pyramids
Egyptian security forces have completed an inspection of the blast site, the ministry said, without going into further detail about what happened.
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Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman Ahmed Hafez called Friday's attack a "cowardly" terrorist act targeting the willpower of the Egyptian people.
No group took immediate responsibility for the incident.
Over the past few years, terrorists have been carrying out anti-government activities and fatal attacks, taking advantage of the turmoil in Egypt that erupted after the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was ousted in July 2013 through a military coup led by incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
The coup unleashed a string of terrorist attacks originating in the Sinai Peninsula but also hitting targets across Egypt.
Operation Sinai 2018, which involves security forces mobilized from the air force, navy, army and police, aims to tighten control on border districts and clean up areas where there are terrorist hotbeds.
The Sinai Peninsula has been under a state of emergency since October 2014. 101/201/211
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