The victim of a terrorist bombing in a crowded Cairo tourist spot was a French teenage girl on a school trip, it emerged today.

An explosion ripped into a famous bazaar in Cairo, killing a French woman and wounding at least 21 people, most of them foreigners.

Two veiled women shot at a tour bus, and the fiance of one of the women blew himself up as he leaped off a bridge during a police chase today, wounding seven people in the second strike on tourists in less than a month.