A homemade bomb has killed one French student and injured more than a dozen other students at a landmark Cairo market on Sunday.
The students were nearing the end of their trip when the attack happened, said Mayor Patrick Balkany of the teens' hometown Levallois-Perret, France on Monday.
"We are faced with a dreadful drama," said Balkany.
This attack was first on tourists in Egypt in three years. It is also making Egyptians worried about their tourism industry, which is already been hit by the global economic slowdown.
A government spokesman said the bomb was placed under a stone bench in a cafe where the French students were sitting in the square, next to one of Cairo's most famous shrines, the Hussein mosque.
Several experts said that the attack may have been carried out in anger over Egypt's response to
Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip against Hamas in January.
Three people have been detained for questioning, security officials said and further investigations will be carried out in the next few days.
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