Their action follows yesterday’s bombing of bus which killed three Vietnamese  tourists and an Egyptian tour operator.

No group’s claimed responsibility for yesterday’s destruction of a tourist bus at the great pyramids of Giza hit by a roadside bomb .

Egyptian security forces have responded swiftly to protect the industry that a cornerstone of its economy.

They killed 30 terrorists in Giza province and further ten north Sinai.

In February this year, they responded to an attack on a mosque in Sinai in which more than 300 people died with an operation they said killed  450 jihadis.

30 Egyptian soldiers died in that action.   

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He says this is essential to Egyptian tourism badly hit by a succession of terror attacks.

President Abdel Fattah el Sisi made his call to the Russian upper house of parliament on a visit to Moscow this week.

Russia stopped flights to Egyptian  airports three years ago after a bomb was placed aboard a Russian airline caused it to  crash on the Sinai peninsula killing all 224 people aboard.

Russia resumed flights to Cairo last April.

African skies are opening up.

Next month,Ethiopian Airlines has announced it will resume scheduled flights to Somali capital Mogadishu  for the first time in 41 years

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