government is fighting an insurgency they targeted militants who were allegedly planning further attacks on key sites the crackdown comes less than twenty four hours after three vietnamese tourists and their local guide were killed by a roadside bomb. a vietnamese tourists were on their way to a light and sound show at the pyramids of giza instead they were struck by a deadly blast three of the fourteen tourists on the bus were reported killed another eleven were injured including the driver the group's egyptian guide was also killed. my was in a minibus returning from work and we heard a big noise and thought a car had fallen off the bridge. after that we saw people and taxi drivers running in saying that a bus was hit. with security forces descending on the smashed bus investigators from the scene said the bomb was an improvised device hidden next to a wall along the road which went off as the bus drove by egyptian officials noted