EGYPT: POLICE TIGHTEN SECURITY AROUND TOURISTS FOLLOWING BOMB ATTACK IN CAIRO CAFE WHICH KILLED THREE PEOPLE, INCLUDING 2 FOREIGNERS.

Record ID: 358559

  • Title: EGYPT: POLICE TIGHTEN SECURITY AROUND TOURISTS FOLLOWING BOMB ATTACK IN CAIRO CAFE WHICH KILLED THREE PEOPLE, INCLUDING 2 FOREIGNERS.
  • Date: 3rd March 1993
  • Summary: GIZA AND CAIRO, EGYPT (MARCH 3, 1993) GIZA 1. GV: POLICE CAR AND PYRAMIDS (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. SV PULL BACK TO GV: POLICEMAN AND CAR AT PYRAMIDS 0.14 CAIRO 3. SV: POLICEMAN CHECKING CAR 0.17 4. GV TILT DOWN: POLICE CHECKING TOURISTS 0.22 5. GV: GROUP OF TOURIST 0.25 6. SV: POLICE CHECKING PARCELS 0.30 7.
  • Embargoed: 18th March 1993 12:00
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  • Location: GIZA AND CAIRO, EGYPT
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  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVA5NWGPJUCRQFQ5J1ULGL9AVQAE
  • Story Text: Egypt has tightened security at hotels, museums, theatres and monument sites this week, reacting to a bomb attack on a Cairo cafe on February 26 that was the worst act of political violence in the country for many years.

    Hotels have locked side doors and plainclothes security men guard lobbies, cafes, hallways, parking lots and monuments. The bags of visitors are routinely searched, hotel officials said.

    Hoteliers said security had already been tight because of Moslem militant attacks on tourists but the number of security men had been increased again after the cafe explosion.

    Tourist police were conspicuous around the Pyramids at Giza, one of Egypt's prime tourist attractions Interior Minister Abdel-Halim Moussa said Moslem militants were responsible for the attack on the Nile Valley coffee house on Cairo's biggest square, close to the Egyptian Museum and the Nile Hilton. The blast killed three people including an Egyptian said by Moussa to have planted the bomb. Two of the dead and eight of the 16 injured were foreigners.


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