24 S. Africans caught up in Egypt's bus explosion return home

A group of 24 South Africans who were touring Egypt on Sunday when their bus was targeted with an explosion returned home on Monday, said South Africa's International Relations and Cooperation department (Dirco).

Vehicles damages during a bomb blast near Egypt's famed Giza pyramids on May 19, 2019. [Photo: AFP/Sayed Hasan]

Dirco's spokesperson Ndivhuwo Mabaya told Xinhua,"We are happy with the minister of tourism in Egypt came to the airport to send them off and indicated that law enforcement agencies were investigating this."

He said four other South Africans who sustained minor injury remained in Egypt for medical care. South Africa's Ambassador to Egypt Vusi Mavimbela was offering support and monitoring the hospitalized.

Mabaya said they don't believe the explosion was targeting South Africans in particular.

An explosion hit a tourist bus near the Grand Egyptian Museum near the capital Cairo on Sunday, injuring 17 people,

This is not the first attack to take place near the museum, as four people were killed in a bomb attack in December last year.