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Sinai resort bombings : Al-Qaeda-linked group claims responsibility At least 30 people were killed and 120 wounded when car bombs exploded at resorts packed with Israeli holidaymakers on the Red Sea coast of Egypt's Sinai desert in attacks claimed by a group saying it belongs to Al-Qaeda. The most powerful of the explosions late Thursday left carnage and destruction at the Hilton Hotel in Taba, a town just across the Israeli border, with another 30 people reported missing. Also hit was a backpackers resort at Ras Shaitain (Devil's Head) in Nuweiba, 65 kilometres (40 miles) down the coast from Taba. A group calling itself Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam and claiming to be part of the militant Al-Qaeda network took responsibility for the blasts in a statement posted on an Islamist website. "The Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam give our Arab and Islamic nation the good news of the heroic martyrdom operations in Egypt, through which our sons in the squad of the leader martyr cleansed the land of Taba from the filth of the Jews," said the statement, which could not be independently verified. Israel's deputy defence minister, Zeev Boim, said earlier that the blasts "appear to be an international terror attack with the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda". Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said it was too early to determine who was responsible for the attacks, also claimed by two other groups. "It is still very early to say that this or that group was behind the terrorist action," Abul Gheit told reporters in Cairo. |
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