EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton strongly condemned on Monday the terrorist attack on a tourist bus, which killed three South Korean tourists, an Egyptian driver and injured several people on Sunday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.
Egyptian militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility earlier on Monday for the deadly tourist bus blast in the Sinai resort city of Taba. The group said tourists had four days to leave the country or they would be targeted.
Ashton conveyed her condolences to the families of the victims and wished a speedy recovery to those who had been injured, her spokesperson said. She called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice and described the attack as "heinous."
The blast is the first to target the tourist industry, a main foreign currency generator for Egypt, which has been suffering political uncertainty since the army ousted the country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on July 3.
Ashton reaffirmed her commitment to the 28-nation bloc, which aims to support the stability and security in Egypt and to achieve a sustainable democracy and a better life for all Egyptians.
Tourists were last targeted in Egypt in 2009 when a bomb went off in a tourist market in the al-Hussein district in the heart of Fatimid, Cairo. The attack killed a French female tourist and injured 25 other tourists of different nationalities.
