AT LEAST six people have been killed in a bomb attack on a road leading to the Great Pyramid of Giza - a tourist attraction popular with British holidaymakers.The explosion appeared to have come from a rubbish bin in Cairo along a route used to access the entrance to the world heritage site, which lies in a western suburb of the capital.
Giza, one of the the seven wonders of the world and the only one to remain largely intact, welcomes thousands of British tourists every year.
However the dead are said to all be policemen and adminstrative officers working close to the landmark. There have been no confirmed foreign casualties although four civilians were also injured.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Al Haram street - a main thoroughfare between central Cairo and the pyramids.
| Update from Al Ahram at 1:10 p.m. ET: |
The interior ministry's statement said that the blast killed two police officers, a low-ranking policeman and two conscripts.
Three other policemen were injured and were transferred to hospital.
According to security sources who spoke with Ahram Arabic website, the explosive device was planted in a car parked next to a security checkpoint near Al-Salam mosque in Haram Street. The device was detonated remotely, the sources added.
The "Hasm" group—believed to be linked to the Muslim Brotherhood—has claimed a number of attacks on police checkpoints in the past couple of months.