{"id":27280,"date":"2018-12-29T02:22:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27280"},"modified":"2018-12-29T02:22:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T02:22:28","slug":"two-killed-in-roadside-bomb-attack-near-egypts-giza-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27280","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in roadside bomb attack near Egypt&#8217;s Giza pyramids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"82.6001926782\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus near the Pyramids of Giza, south of the capital Cairo, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/egypt.html\">Egypt<\/a>&#8216;s interior ministry said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">A homemade device exploded at 6:15 pm (3:15pm GMT) on Friday causing the deaths of two Vietnamese tourists, a ministry statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The improvised explosive was placed near a wall along the\u00a0Mariyutiya Street in the Haram district near the Giza Pyramids, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased were part of a group of 14 tourists who were being shown around by an Egyptian and a driver, both of whom were injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Security services were immediately dispatched to the area and have opened an investigation into the explosion, the ministry said without giving any further detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has battled armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula for years and that conflict has occasionally spilled over to the mainland, with armed groups targeting minority Christians or tourists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s attack however is the first attack to target foreign tourists in almost two years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus near the Pyramids of Giza, south of the capital Cairo, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others, Egypt&#8217;s interior ministry said.\u00a0 A homemade device exploded at 6:15 pm (3:15pm GMT) on Friday causing the deaths of two Vietnamese tourists, a ministry statement said. The improvised explosive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}