Egypt bus bomb hurts 17 tourists

AT least 17 tourists were injured by a roadside bomb near Egypt’s Giza Pyramids in the second such attack within six months.

The bomb went off near a bus carrying around 25 people, mostly from South Africa, yesterday afternoon. The bus was travelling close to the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is under construction next to the Pyramids.

Security forces cordoned off the site and the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital.

Egypt has battled Islamists for years in the Sinai Peninsula in an insurgency that has occasionally affected other areas, hitting minority Christians or tourists.

In December, a bus carrying 15 Vietnamese tourists was hit by a roadside bomb, killing at least three of them.