World IN BRIEF : EGYPT : Attack on Tourist Bus Wounds Eight
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Four gunmen on bicycles attacked a tourist bus in southern Egypt, wounding six German tourists and two Egyptians, authorities said. The shooting occurred in Qena, a provincial capital on the Nile 300 miles southeast of Cairo, according to the official Middle East News Agency. The national tourist police in Cairo said a suspect was arrested but gave no details. The attack came less than a month after an Oct. 21 attack on a tourist bus north of Qena in which a British woman was killed and two Britons wounded.
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