Tourist police killed at pyramids

Gunmen on a speeding motorcycle opened fire outside the plateau of the famed Giza Pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo yesterday, killing two tourist police, Egypt’s state news agency reported.

The drive-by shooting was a rare attack at a tourist site. The state MENA newsagency said the gunmen fled the area and that an investigation was under way.

Egypt sees regular attacks on its security forces as it struggles with a low-level Islamist insurgency, mostly in the lawless northern Sinai Peninsula.