Two people were killed and five others were injured in an attack involving an explosion and gunfire Wednesday near an ancient temple site in Luxor, Egypt, the country’s Health Ministry said.
Initial information indicated a suicide bomber blew himself up near Luxor’s ancient Karnak temple complex, the state-run Al-Ahram media outlet reported.
Gunfire followed the explosion, the Health Ministry said, without saying who fired the shots.
Details about who was killed weren’t immediately available. The injured were security personnel and Egyptian civilians, the Health Ministry said.
Luxor is a popular tourist destination on the Nile River about 600 kilometers (370 miles) from Cairo. The city’s west bank is home to some of Egypt’s most prized ancient temples and monuments.
In 1997, Islamist extremists killed more than 50 tourists at Luxor, in one of the Middle East’s most deadly terror attacks in the last 20 years.