Tourists killed at Cairo bazaar
2005-04-07 20:33
Cairo - An explosion, apparently set off by a man on a motorcycle, hit an outdoor bazaar popular with tourists in Cairo's Old City on Thursday, killing a French woman and an American man, and wounding at least 19 other people, officials said.
The wounded comprised 10 Egyptians, two Americans, two Turks, two Italians, two French people and one British person, said Egyptian deputy health minister Ahmed Adel.
He said the two dead were a French woman and an American.
Police earlier reported as many as three may have been killed, with body parts strewn around the area, near Cairo's famed al-Azhar Mosque.
At least two witnesses said the explosion seemed to have been set off by a man on a motorcycle, perhaps carrying a bomb. Police were investigating the reports.
The dead French woman was a tourist, said French Embassy spokesperson Bernadette Abou Bechara.
An official at the United States embassy in Cairo said he could not confirm that the casualties included Americans.
- AP