Five alleged al-Qaida members who entered Egypt with forged passports and are currently hiding in a mountainous area in the Sinai Peninsula are plotting terrorist attacks, Egyptian authorities said today.

An Islamic militant suspected of helping plot a string of bomb attacks against Sinai tourist resorts turned himself in to police today.

Two Palestinians helped fund and train members of an Egyptian terrorist group blamed for bombings in Sinai, authorities said today.

Police in Egypt today killed the leader of an al-Qaida-inspired militant group who was wanted for last month’s Sinai bombings that killed 21 people.

Al-Jazeera’s Cairo bureau chief has been released on bail of 10,000 Egyptian pounds (€1,400) after being charged with propagating false news, the TV station said tonight.

This week’s bombings in Sinai are linked to the terror attacks in the peninsula’s resorts of Sharm el-Sheik last year and Taba in 2004, Egyptian Interior Minister Habib el-Adly said today.

Two suicide bombers on foot struck just outside a multinational peacekeeping forces base just south of the Rafa border crossing to Gaza today.

An explosion has rocked an area just outside a Sinai Peninsula base that houses a multi-national peacekeeping force, just two days after triple blasts hit a nearby Sinai tourist resort.

Egyptian authorities, already struggling with elusive terror cells in the rugged Sinai Peninsula, moved quickly yesterday – arresting 30 men in the triple bombings that ripped apart a resort town on a tranquil holiday evening.

MONDAY’S attacks on Dahab are expected to have an immediate impact on Egyptian tourism, which is the country’s main source of foreign exchange.

MONDAY’S attacks on Dahab are expected to have an immediate impact on Egyptian tourism, which is the country’s main source of foreign exchange.

POLICE arrested 10 people yesterday and divers retrieved body parts from the sea after a triple bomb attack that ripped apart the Sinai beach resort of Dahab on Monday.

The United Nations Security Council tonight condemned the terrorist bombings at the Egyptian resort of Dahab “in the strongest terms” and urged all countries to cooperate in bringing the perpetrators, organisers and financiers to justice.

Police arrested 10 people today and divers retrieved body parts from the sea after a triple bomb attack that ripped apart the Sinai beach resort of Dahab yesterday.

The European Union today condemned the “despicable” bombings at a popular beach resort in Egypt, and leaders across Europe said they were standing with the Egyptian government against terrorist attacks.

Three nearly simultaneous bombings hit a Egyptian beach resort popular with foreigners yesterday, killing at least 23 people on streets filled with holiday-makers and Egyptians enjoying a long weekend marking a national holiday.

LAST night’s bomb attack in Dahab is the latest of a series of terrorist outrages in Egypt, many targeting popular tourist resorts.

DOZENS were feared killed after last night’s bomb attack hit an Egyptian resort at the height of the tourist season.

Three terrorist bombs tonight hit the Egyptian resort of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 150.

Three explosions tonight rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 18 people and wounding more 150 at just one hotel, according to police and rescuers.

Three explosions tonight rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 17 people and wounding more than 150 at just one hotel, according to the doctor who runs Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rescue squad.

British tourists were among those caught up in three explosions in Egypt tonight.

Egyptian police say three explosions that have rocked the Sinai resort town of Dahab have caused casualties.