Egyptian police have detained 200 people for questioning over two attacks on foreign tourists in Cairo and are hunting for the brother of one of the attackers, security sources said today.
Police rounded up the people north of Cairo in the working class district of Shubra Kheima, home to a man and two women who killed themselves and wounded four foreigners in two separate attacks on tourists yesterday.
The authorities were investigating whether there were more members of a group which they say was behind the attacks and also carried out an April 7 attack which killed three tourists and a bomber in a Cairo bazaar, the sources said.
Ihab Yusri Yassin, yesterday's bomber, wounded the four foreigners and three Egyptians when he blew himself up near the Egyptian museum. Police were searching for his brother north of Cairo, but did not give his name.
Yassin's wife and sister opened fire on a tourist bus in another part of Cairo but did not wound any tourists.
The authorities had previously identified Iman Ibrahim Khamees, who with Yousri's sister shot at the bus in southern Cairo, as Yousri's girlfriend. But the prosecutor general today said she was his wife.
Yousri's sister Negat shot and wounded Khamees before shooting herself dead. Khamees died of her wounds.
Yassin was a fugitive wanted in connection with the April 7 attack in Cairo, the authorities said.