Deadly blast hits tour bus near Giza pyramids in Egypt

Police officers examined the shattered vehicle

Three Vietnamese tourists and a local tour guide have been killed after a roadside bomb hit a bus near the Giza pyramids in Egypt, officials say.

Eleven others were injured in the incident, the first affecting foreign tourists in Egypt in more than a year.

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said the bus had deviated from its planned route without alerting security forces, although the driver denied this.

No group has yet said it was behind the blast, Islamist militants have targeted tourists in the past.

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Two German tourists were stabbed to death at a hotel in the popular Red Sea resort of Hurghada last year.


Security is already tight in Egypt, with the tourist season at its height and the country's main Christian minority, the Copts, preparing to celebrate Orthodox Christmas on 7 January.