A roadside bomb killed three Vietnamese tourists and their local guide last night Mohamed El-Shahed/Getty ImagesEgyptian police killed 40 suspected terrorists in three co-ordinated gun battles on Saturday after a deadly attack on a coach carrying tourists to the Great Pyramids of Giza. A roadside bomb killed three Vietnamese tourists and their local guide on Friday night in the first murderous attack on foreign tourists in more than a year in Egypt. A retaliatory raid on “terrorist elements” in a Giza hideout today killed 30 militants who had allegedly been planning attacks on state institutions and the tourism industry. Ten more militants were killed in two raids in the North Sinai desert, where military and police have been carrying out a large operation against militant Islamist groups since February. The state news agency MENA said the three raids were simultaneous…

Source: The Times December 29, 2018 12:11 UTC