Cairo
1.
Exterior wide of the
Egyptian museum
2.
Various of tourists outside Egyptian museum
3. Tourists waiting to enter museum
4. Tourists looking at exhibit inside
5. Various of exhibits
6. Various shots of tourists inside museum
7. Pan of exhibit
8. SOUNDBITE (
English) Vox pop,
Debbie Boater,
Tourist from the US:
"No, I am not scared. One has to be very careful here, one does not go out alone, one takes a guide.
It's not like the
States were you can walk anywhere, but if you are smart you are safe."
9. SOUNDBITE (
French) Vox pop,
Fran�oise, full name not given, Tourist from
France:
"I'm leaving for France tomorrow evening, which was planned. Our tour started just over a week ago, Saturday the 15th. So we are returning tomorrow like we planned."
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Vox pop,
Gary Good, Tourist from
South Africa:
"I am not scared at all, I mean, quite lucky that we weren't there, but I don't think it bothers me. Bad things happen all over the place, especially being from South Africa, we are quite to these sort of things, so it definitely doesn't put me off being here.
Everybody is very friendly so I still feel welcome and I don't feel afraid at all for anybody."
11. Close-up of
sign for travel agency
12. Interior of travel agency
13. Various of tourists talking to travel agents
14. SOUNDBITE (
Arabic) Ashraf El
Gazzar,
Travel Agent:
"There are some cancellations, and also of flights, and work has become less."
Giza
15. Various of tourists at the pyramids
STORYLINE
Tourists in Cairo on Tuesday expressed their thoughts on travel safety in
Egypt, two days after a crude bomb killed a French teenager and injured 24 others at a famous bazaar in the capital city.
The blast Sunday night was the first attack targeting foreigners in Egypt in three years.
However, tourists that spoke to AP
Television Tuesday said they still felt safe in Egypt and would not consider leaving early.
Debbie Boater, a tourist from the
United States said being street smart meant safety and recommended taking a guide.
"Bad things happen all over the place," said Gary Good, a tourist from South Africa. "Everybody is very friendly so I still feel welcome and I don't feel afraid at all for anybody."
Ashraf El Gazzar, a Cairo travel agent however said he could feel the effects of the bombing through "some cancellations" and less work.
Meanwhile investigations continued, with latest reports conflicting about what caused the blast.
French Foreign Ministry spokesman
Eric Chevallier told a news conference in
Paris Tuesday that the
Egyptian investigation was following two tracks: "
On the one hand, two explosive devices thrown from the third floor of a hotel adjacent to the square. Or, two objects placed under a bench," one of which was detonated.
Ann
Egyptian government spokesman had said a second bomb was found under a nearby bench and defused shortly after the blast.
It was unclear whether Chevallier's remarks on the Egyptian investigation were outdated or whether the two theories still stood.
A report from the Egyptian crime lab carried in newspapers Tuesday said the explosive device weighed a pound (half a kilogram) and was filled with gunpowder, rocks and pieces of metal.
It also said it detonated by a washing machine timer.
Washing machine timers have been used in the past in Egypt to detonate explosives, including a series of bombs used against tourism resorts between 2004 and
2006.
Sunday' explosion from a homemade bomb hit the busy main square of the sprawling
Khan el-Khalili market, a popular tourist destination.
The girl, whose name has not been released, was on a trip with 41 other teenage students, the mayor of her hometown said.
militants that waged war against the Egyptian state in the
1990s.
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