Gunmen open fire on tourist bus carrying Palestinians near Cairo
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a tourist bus carrying at least 45 Palestinian citizens of Israel near Cairo on Thursday afternoon with no injuries reported Egyptian police and local media said.
Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri Al-Youm (Egypt Today) quoted the commander of police in the Giza governorate southwest of Cairo as saying that two gunmen on a motorcylce had opened fire on the tourists as they left their hotel to board a bus.
Police officers subsequently chased the assailants arresting one Egyptian police told Ma'an.Local media reported that a number of Israeli citizens were among the tourists who were attacked including a number of Palestinian citizens of Israel.Ahmad Tibi a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset told Ma'an that he had spoken with the Egyptian consulate following the attack and had confirmed that 45 citizens from Umm al-Fahm Jaffa and Kafr Qasim were present during the attack.
Years of violence in Egypt have been a heavy blow to Egypt's tourism sector.
At the end of October last year more than 200 tourists were killed when a Russian plane was blown up mid-air shortly after taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
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