Bodies of Germans killed in bus attack sent home yesterday

The bodies of 9 German tourists killed in a gasoline bomb attack in Cairo were flown back to Germany yesterday, a senior source in the ministry of the Interior said yesterday.

The bodies were placed aboard a Lufthansa plane and flown to Frankfurt Airport. The tourists and their Egyptian bus driver were killed in the attack last Thursday.

Security sources said yesterday that Egypt would send two men charged with the attack for trial before a military tribunal in the next few weeks, al Ahram reported today.

Police arrested the two men, identified as escaped mental patient Saher Mohamed Farahat and his brother Mahmoud after the bus carrying 33 German tourists was burnt out by a gasoline bombs while parked in busy Tahrir Square.