The police reached the conclusion, based on CCTV footage which showed that the suicide bomber presumed to be in his 20s suddenly boarding the tourist bus and detonating the bomb near the entrance of the bus, according to the report.
Mun Hi-jeong, a South Korean survivor who was sitting at the back of the bus, made similar remarks. Mun was quoted as saying by the Yonhap news agency that “tour guides pushed the man out of the bus as soon as he boarded the bus. Immediately after he went out of the bus, an explosion occurred.”
Jihadist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis claimed the suicide bombing of the tour bus, AFP said.
A bomb targeted a bus carrying 31 South Korean tourists and two Korean and one Egyptian tour guides, in Egypt's Sinai peninsula near the Israel border Sunday. The blast killed three South Korean tourists and the Egyptian driver, and injured 14 others.
The tourists, all Presbyterian churchgoers, had been on a 12-day, three-nation pilgrimage since Feb. 10.
Photos taken by the AFP news agency show that some injured South Koreans staying at an international hospital in the Red Sea town of Sharm el-Sheikh, some 500km east of Cairo, to receive medical treatment.
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