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.

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.

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

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.

Police in Jordan today detained several suspects as the hunt widened for the militants who fired the rockets that narrowly missed a US Navy ship anchored off Aqaba.

An explosion was heard in Jordan’s port of Aqaba near a facility used by US military vessels, an official and Arab satellite TV stations said, but the cause of the blast was unclear.

US President George Bush tonight flew out of the cauldron of Mideast politics after extracting concessions from the Israeli and Palestinian leaders that might just give peace a chance.

Israeli and Palestinian leaders made concessions today to keep the road map to Mid East peace on track.