Egypt: bomb against tourist bus at the Pyramids, dead and injured

Bomb against a bus of tourists to the Pyramids that kills 4 people mostly Vietnamese and hurts at least ten other passengers. According to the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior, the bus passed along the Via Marioutiyah in the Haram district of Giza when a craft bomb, hidden behind a wall, exploded shortly after 18.00 local time. Of the 14 Vietnamese tourists who traveled on the bus, only two remained unharmed. None of the injured is in danger of life, according to medical sources cited by Al Arabiya. Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly immediately went to the El-Haram hospital in Giza, where the injured were found. Egypt has been fighting for years against Islamic extremist organizations active in Sinai, where attacks and attacks are frequent. Occasionally, terrorists have hit the rest of the country, targeting exponents of the Coptic Christian minority or tourists, particularly pilgrims traveling to the ancient Sinai monasteries. It was two years ago that foreign tourists were not targets for attacks. Egyptian tourism, hit hard by waves of political upheavals, violence and terrorism since 2011, was slowly recovering in recent months. Today's attack could trigger a tightening of security measures, particularly around the country's landmarks - such as the Pyramids, the Egyptian museum in Cairo or the Red Sea tourist resorts - and in the Christian churches and other sites where it is present the Coptic community (about 10 million people), in the approach of the New Year celebrations. Among the bloodiest attacks against Christians, we remember the double attack on Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria in Egypt on last Sunday's Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017. The terrorists - the attacks were claimed by ISIS - hit the church of San Giorgio a Tanta on the estuary of the Nile, in which a suicide bomber blew himself up, and the cathedral of San Marco in Alexandria, before which the bomber blew himself up shortly after the end of Mass officiated by the Coptic pope Tawadros II . The dead were a total of 44, injured over one hundred.