Sinai bombs: 3 more held
2006-05-19 07:59
Cairo - Egyptian police have detained three more people suspected of involvement in the triple suicide attacks on the Sinai peninsula last month.
Twenty people died in the blasts.
On Thursday, a security official said the three were on a list of 25 people wanted in connection with the bombings, that struck the popular diving resort of Dahab on April 24.
He said two of three had turned themselves in on Tuesday, and the third on Thursday, in the northern Sinai town of Al-Arish.
Since the bombings, security forces have been combing the vast mountainous desert of Sinai to track down those they suspect to be responsible.
Earlier this month, the country's interior ministry announced the mastermind of the organisation behind the bombings had been killed.
Six others suspects and one member of the police force have also been killed since the government launched its manhunt.
The interior ministry accuses the same group - Tawhid wal Jihad (Unification and Holy War) - of being responsible for all attacks in the Sinai over the past two years.