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Article: EGYPT SETS PATROLS OF TOURIST AREAS
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- December 3, 1992
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A few recent attacks on tourists in Egypt - seen as a threat to the $4 billion tourism industry there - have prompted the government to announce patrols of some tourist areas by military helicopters.
An attack on a tourist bus on Oct. 21 in southern Egypt left a British tourist dead and two others injured. On Oct. 1, gunmen fired on a Nile cruise ship carrying German tourists. And over the summer, two bombing incidents in which no one was hurt were reported.
The attacks have been attributed to Islamic militants who issued a statement in August to foreign ...