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Terrorist Attack Wounds Seven in Cairo

(New York Times) Mona El-Naggar and Hassan M. Fattah - Ehab Yousri Yassin, a suspect in a deadly bombing April 7 at Cairo's main bazaar, was spotted by security officers on Saturday and during a chase he leaped from a bridge behind the popular Egyptian Museum and blew himself up, wounding three Egyptians, an Israeli couple, a Swedish man, and an Italian woman. Less than two hours later, two veiled women, later identified as his sister and his fiancee, attacked a tour bus packed with Israeli tourists near Cairo's Citadel, firing several shots at the bus but not hitting anyone. The sister then shot and killed the fiancee and then herself.
2005-05-02 00:00:00
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