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| Dahab Bomber Gives Himself Up |
| 2006-06-09 |
| Cairo, 9 June (AKI) - Egptian police have arrested a major indictee for last April's terror attacks at Red Sea holiday resort of Dahab, Galal Salam Qorei. The terror suspect turned himself in at a police station in Cairo on Thursday, and police arrested him immediately after verifying his identy, the Arab website Moheet said. Qorei's arrest comes just a few days after the holding for questioning of three other people suspected of planning and carrying out the attacks. Qorei, 26, is from el-Arish, a small town in the northern Sinai peninsula. Moreover, the Egyptian interior ministry announced last Friday that three other suspected terrorists had been killed during a gunfight between with the police in the Sinai region. The terror attacks of Dahab tourism resort in the Egyptian Sinai peninsula, on 24 April, killed 20 people - including three foreign tourists - and wounded 70. Although at first investigators said remotely detonated bombs had caused the three explosions in a restaurant, a cafe and a supermerket, it subsequently emerged that suicide bombers caused at least two of the blasts. Resorts in the southern Sinai peninsula have been hit before. Bombers struck the last time in July 2005, when at least 67 people were killed in Sharm el-Sheikh. |
| Posted by:Steve |