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A suicide bomber struck at foreign tourists near Egypt’s most famous museum on Saturday, while his sister and girlfriend opened fire at a tourist bus, in attacks that left all three dead.
Seven people were injured near the Egyptian Museum. In the bus attack in south Cairo, the first in living memory by women in Egypt, the two veiled women fired three shots at the coach’s back window, the Interior Ministry said. No one in the bus was hit.
The Interior Ministry said that the bomber’s sister, Negat, then shot her companion, Khamees, and committed suicide. Khamees died in hospital of her wounds.
The ministry said the suicide bomber was Ihab Yousri Yassin, a fugitive member of the group which planned an April 7 bombing that killed three tourists in a Cairo bazaar.
