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Comments twitter facebook Sina Microblog reddit JERUSALEM, Feb. 16 -- A total of 15 people injured in a tourist bus explosion in Egypt'sSinai Peninsula Sunday were sent to a hospital in the southern Israeli port city of Eilat fortreatment, Israeli media reported.
Five people -- four South Koreans and an Egyptian bus driver -- were killed in thepowerful blast that ripped through a tourist bus as it approached the Taba border crossingwith Israel, Egypt's Interior Ministry said.
Israeli emergency services evacuated 15 of the 35 injured to Eilat's Joseftal hospital, wherethey were taken into intensive care.
There were no Israelis on the bus, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
Maj.- Gen. Sami Turgeman, head of the Israeli army's Southern Command, ordered thatthe border crossing be closed until further notice, a security source told Xinhua.
Meanwhile, military forces have been deployed on the Israeli side of the Taba terminal tobolster security.
（Editor：WangXin、Yan Meng）
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