Egyptian security forces have arrested two men suspected of driving suicide bombers to their targets in the Sinai peninsula, the official MENA news agency reported late Friday.
Mohammed Shehta, an Egyptian, and Mohammed Zir, a Palestinian, are being questioned in connection with Monday's attacks in the Red Sea resort of Dahab and the North Sinai town of al-Gura, the news agency said.
Three suicide bombers struck almost simultaneously in the heart of Dahab on Monday, killing at least 18 people and wounding up to 80.
On Wednesday, two more suicide bombers targeted peacekeepers from the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) and Egyptian police in al-Gura, causing no other casualties.
Security forces suspect Shehta drove the Dahab bombers to their targets on the eve of the deadly attacks.
He reportedly admitted driving three "bedouin" men to Dahab from central Sinai, but maintained he had no idea about their intentions.
"They had cantaloupes and a sack that they said contained charcoal," MENA quoted Shehta as telling his interrogators.
They demanded Shehta drive them to Dahab and the men handed out cantaloupes at traffic police stations and to security forces manning roadblocks along the way, it added.
Zir is suspected of being the driver of a red pickup that dropped off the suicide bomber who targeted the MFO vehicle in al-Gura, MENA said.
Security forces detained more than 30 suspects in the wake of the Dahab bombings, including three Egyptian computer engineers found carrying fake papers.
Mumen Faruk Mohammed, Ali Karim Ashraf Abdullah and Majed Ali Mahmud arrived in Dahab on Sunday in a car the registration plate of which had changed by the time they left but they have since been released without charge.
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