#Bomb attack

Vietnam strongly condemns the terror bomb attacks on a Catholic cathedral in Jolo island city in the southern Philippine province of Sulu on January 27, spokesperson of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang has stated. 

Three Vietnamese tourists, who were seriously injured in a roadside bomb attack in Egypt in December 2018, are to leave hospital to travel home on January 9.

The first nine out of 12 Vietnamese tourists injured in a recent bomb attack in Egypt arrived at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City in the afternoon of January 1.

Vietnamese Ambassador to Egypt Tran Thanh Cong has affirmed that eight out of 12 Vietnamese people who were injured in the recent bomb attack in Cairo have completely recovered and could return home.

The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt has identified three Vietnamese victims who were killed when a roadside bomb blast hit their tour bus near the world-famous Giza pyramids at 18:15 on December 28 (local time).

Egyptian Tourism Minister Rania Al-Mashat on December 29 affirmed that her ministry will coordinate with the Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt to create favorable conditions for relatives of Vietnamese tourists who were killed and injured in the bomb blast in Giza to come to the country.