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Gunmen on motorbikes have opened fire on a tourist bus in Cairo.

The shootings happened outside the four-star Barcelo Cairo Pyramids hotel in the Egyptian city.

Witnesses initially claimed the gunmen opened fire on the tourists as they boarded a bus.

However, it later emerged the gunmen had targeted security officers.

The attack took place at a hotel on a road leading to the pyramids.

One gunmen was arrested at the scene and security forces surrounded the other attacker in another part of Cairo, said the sources.

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Security sources said there were no casualties.

It is not yet known who carried out the attacks.

The four-star Barcelo Cairo Pyramids is just 4km away from the famous pyramids.

It is located on Sharia al Haram, which is one of Egypt’s most famous streets, known as Pyramids Street.

The hotel attracts an array of international guests.

Tourism is a pillar of the Egyptian economy, which has been struggling to recover from political turmoil triggered by the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared an all-out war on Islamist militants, who hope to destabilize Egypt through suicide bombings and shooting attacks.

Islamic State's Egypt affiliate has said it planted a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that crashed in the Sinai on October 31, killing all 224 people on board.