CAIRO, 3 May 2005 — Egyptian government is looking for the youngest brother of the bomber who carried out last Saturday’s bomb attack near a downtown museum.
Police said high school student Muhammad Yousri, brother of the bomber, Ihab Yousri Yassin, was involved in the twin attacks that targeted tourist spots in central and southern Cairo.
“Investigations revealed that Yousri cooperated with his brother in preparing the bomb,” said a security source. “He also helped his sister and sister-in-law in buying the light guns they used in their failed operation near Salah Eddin Citadel,” the source told Arab News.
“We are moving as quickly as we can to arrest him since he may be planning another attack in revenge,” he added.
Meanwhile, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib Al-Adli said in an interview published yesterday that the recent terrorist attacks on tourists in Cairo were the work of a small local cell of extremists. The attackers had no connection with the Al-Qaeda network or with the Egyptian terrorist organizations that killed tourists in Egypt in the 1990s, newspaper Al-Gomhuria quoted the minister as saying.
“What they did was a reaction to what is happening in the Arab region,” he said.
A young suicide bomber injured seven people, including four foreigners, on Saturday in Cairo when he blew himself up.
An Israeli married couple and a female Italian tourist have already left the hospital, security sources said, while a Swedish man and three injured Egyptians were still receiving treatment.
The sister of the attacker and his young wife, who had been described as a fiancee in earlier reports, opened fire on a tourist bus in Cairo on the same day without injuring anyone.
They killed themselves after the attack.
One witness named Fatma Mahmud saw the two women hurrying through the street crying before the attack. One woman said to the other, “I will avenge your death,” the report said.
