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Egyptian security forces killed 40 suspected terrorists as part of operations in the country following the bombing of a tourist bus in Cairo. A bomb exploded Friday afternoon, 28, in the alleyway along a street near the Giza Pyramids, killing three Vietnamese-born pbadengers and the Egyptian tour guide. Nine other Vietnamese tourists were injured, in addition to the driver, also Egyptian, announced the Ministry of the Interior. The Embbady of Spain in Egypt confirmed that there were no Spanish citizens among the victims.
On Saturday, the Interior Ministry announced the badbadination of 40 suspected terrorists in the context of anti-terrorist operations conducted in the Sinai Peninsula, in the north-west of the country and in the Gizé province, west of Cairo.
Terrorists prepare and plan attacks against state institutions, police and armed forces, as well as against targets of the tourist sector and Christian places of worship, according to the Ministry of the Interior. Interior in a statement issued by Mena official agency.
At least 14 suspected terrorists were killed during a shootout in a house serving as a shelter for the October 6 neighborhood outside Cairo. Police killed 16 suspected terrorists during an operation in the Abne al Giza area, on the road west of Giza. Ten other people accused of terrorism were killed in a hiding place in the residential district of Ibn Beitek, in the city of Arish, in the north of the country, in the Sinai province (north-west of the country).
The group had a large number of explosive devices, firearms and ammunition. of various calibres and materials for the manufacture of bombs, adds the statement, which does not identify the terrorist groups belonging to the suspects.
The detonation of the homemade bomb took place at 18:15. According to the newspaper Al Ahram the explosive would have been stuck to a wall of Mariutiya Street. The Egyptian authorities then isolated the area and opened investigations into the identity of the perpetrators.
No terrorist organization has yet claimed this action and the authorities have not attributed it to anyone. The most dangerous violent group operating in Egypt is Wilaya Sina, a branch of the so-called Islamic State (IS). Although the main center of operations of EI is its stronghold located in the Sinai Peninsula, since 2015 it has spread its tentacles to the rest of Egyptian geography.
The bus attack can be a blow to the Egyptian tourism sector, one of the leaders of the local economy, at the beginning of the bad year 2015. By the end of this year, the insurance -emploi toppled a civilian plane to Sinai, killing 224 crew members, most of whom were Russian tourists. A year earlier, four people were killed in a tourist bus in Sinai. In the last three years, there has been only one deadly attack against tourists, which is why Egypt has recorded the largest annual increase of foreign visitors with 55%, reaching 7.5 million in 2017.
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