Egypt police kill 40 militants after tourist bus attack

Saturday's raids came one day after three tourists were killed in a bomb blast west of Cairo

CAIRO (AA) – Egyptian police killed dozens of suspected militants in security raids, one day after the killing of three tourists in a bomb blast in Cairo, according to the official MENA News Agency.

Three Vietnamese tourists and an Egyptian guide were killed Friday evening in a roadside bomb blast that targeted a tourist bus near the world-famous Pyramids in Gaza province, west of Cairo.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

On Saturday, security forces killed at least 40 suspected militants in raids in Giza and northern Sinai, MENA reported, without giving any further details.

Egyptian authorities have yet to issue an official statement on the raids.

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