Egypt’s sports tourism under attack
A bus carrying mostly South African tourists was attacked near the Giza pyramids in Cairo, ahead of the African Union Cup that Egypt will host this summer.
CAIRO — An explosion using a primitive bomb targeted on May 19 a tourist bus near the Grand Egyptian Museum, which is located close to the Giza pyramids, wounding at least 12 people, most of whom were tourists from South Africa.
Security sources told Reuters that the bus transported 25 tourists from South Africa who were on their way from the airport to the pyramids. Four Egyptians who were in a nearby car were also injured.
According to the sources, the cause of the explosion was a rudimentary bomb detonated remotely on the perimeter of the Grand Egyptian Museum, near the location of the roadside bomb that targeted a tourist bus on Dec. 29, 2018, and killed four Vietnamese tourists.
The explosion comes as tourism in Egypt has picked up again, after witnessing a decline following the January 25 Revolution in 2011 and the crashing of a Russian passenger plane in 2015.
