Nearly 22 people have been feared killed and 150 injured in three explosions that rocked a market and a busy restaurant area in the Red Sea resort of Dahab on Monday, Egyptian government officials said.
Initial reports have ruled out the possibility of a suicide bombing. State television said the explosions appeared to have been carried out using remote-controlled bombs.
The Dahab resort is a popular destination for Western and Israeli tourists. However, there is no immediate word on the nationality of the victims.
Security personnel have sealed all exit points from the town.
This is the third time in recent years that resorts along Egypt's south Sinai peninsula had been targeted by Islamic militants.
About 70 people were killed in July, 2005 when bombs went off in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Another 34 people were killed in simultaneous attacks in and around the resort of Taba further up the Red Sea coast in October 2004.
Four groups claimed the Sharm el-Sheikh bombings, including Al-Tawhid wal Jihad, an Islamist movement, which said the attacks were revenge for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and out of allegiance to Osama bin Laden.
In April 2005, two French tourists and an American were killed and some 20 people wounded in a bomb attack in the Al-Azhar area of Cairo. Later that month, about 7 people were wounded in an attack in Cairo's Abdel Moneim Riad Square.
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