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Blast in crowded Cairo tourist area kills 4
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by tikun | February 22, 2009 at 11:44 am
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Four people were killed, including a French woman and another foreigner, in a blast near a popular tourist area in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, security and police sources said.
The explosion struck near the historic Khan el-Khalili market in eastern Cairo, where tourists shop for trinkets and sit at outdoor coffee shops. Egyptian Health Minister Hatem el-Gabali said a French woman was among those killed.
The minister said 17 people were wounded, including 10 French tourists, one German and three from Saudi Arabia. The sources said six people had been seriously wounded.
At least one device exploded after being thrown from a motorcycle and bomb disposal experts were trying to defuse a second device which was also thrown, the sources added.
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at 16:43 on February 22nd, 2009
One person was killed ( french or german ) , few were injured ( french , european and egyptian ) , it's very interesting that it happened just outside al-hussien mosque ! To the point that Egyptians injured said that marble & stone fragments from mosque front hit & injured them !! Who would bomb an outside of a mosque ?!