Two women fire at Cairo tour bus after bridge bomber wounds nine

Sunday, May 1, 2005

CAIRO, Egypt -- Two veiled women shot at a tour bus, and a man -- the brother of one shooter and the fiance of the second -- blew himself up as he leapt off a bridge during a police chase Saturday. All three attackers died and nine people, four of them foreigners, were wounded in an apparent revival of violence against Egypt's vital tourism industry.

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