A bomber and two veiled women attacked tourists in separate incidents that killed two people in Cairo today, targeting a museum and a tourist bus, official sources said.
An Egyptian man was killed and seven people injured near the museum in what Cairo's security chief said was a suicide attack.
In the other attack, the first in living memory by women in Egypt, the two veiled women opened fire on the bus in southern Cairo but missed, Cairo's Security Director Nabil el-Azabi said.
One of the women then shot dead the other and the second was wounded, possibly by herself, the official sources said.
Those injured in the bombing were three Egyptians, an Israeli couple, one Italian woman and a Swedish man, the official sources added. "They are in stable condition in hospital," said Tourism Minister Ahmed el-Maghrabi.
Shortly afterwards, the two veiled woman opened fire at the bus on the Salah Salem highway, one of the main arteries through the south of the city.
The bombing near the museum, one of Egypt's most popular tourist destinations, was a suicide operation, Azabi said.
The Interior Ministry said the bomber was Yousri Yassin, a fugitive member of the group which planned an April 7 bombing which killed three tourists in a Cairo bazaar.
It said that he had jumped from the bridge into the square below, where he detonated the bomb. "They found his papers, and the identity card of the perpetrator of the Azhar (bazaar) incident," the ministry said in a statement.
Other security sources said someone had thrown a bomb from a bridge which passes behind the museum.
The body of the dead man lay on its back in a pool of blood under the bridge. His head was blown apart but the rest of his body was apparently intact. He was wearing a light blue shirt and dark trousers, a journalist said.