Sepcial Report: Blast rocks Egypt's Red Sea resort

    CAIRO, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian security agencies said on Sunday that they managed to discover the identity of the mastermind of recent blasts in the Red Sea resort of Dahab and north Sinai, the official MENA news agency reported.

    Fugitive terrorist Nasr Khamis al-Malahi is behind the two attacks and had been charged of involvement in Taba bombs in October 2004 and Sharm el-Sheikh blasts in July 2005, a security source was quoted as saying.

    Anti-terror security forces managed to pinpoint his hideout together with two of his accomplices while sweeping in the center of Sinai, killing one gunman.

    Security forces cordoned off a suspected scene and clashed with three gunmen, killing one of them.

    The Dahab bombings on Monday evening killed 18 people and injured 90 others, according to Attorney General Maher Abdel Wahed.

    Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Wednesday near a base of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, leaving an immediate death, Egyptian security sources said. Enditem