TABA, Egypt (AFP) - Three more bodies were pulled from the rubble of a Red Sea hotel as Egyptian investigators said they had identified a number of suspects in the bombings of packed Sinai resorts that have so far killed 33 people.
Israel said a 10-year-old child was among those killed in the multiple car bomb attacks on resorts along Egypt's Red Sea coast late Thursday.
"Twenty-eight of the victims are apparently Israeli and the five others are foreign," said an army spokesman, adding that rescuers were continuing to sift through debris at the hotel and more bodies may be found.
As the investigations continued into the attacks, the worst in Egypt since a massacre in the Nile resort of Luxor in 1997, Avi Dichter, head of Israel's internal security service Shin Beth, visited the site of the devastated Hilton Hotel in Taba.
While a group claiming to be part of the Al-Qaeda network took responsibility for the blasts, Egyptian police said they had 13 suspects under surveillance, without specifying if they had been arrested or brought in for questioning.
"Thirteen suspects among those possibly linked to the attacks are currently under tight surveillance," a police source said, adding that they were residents of the Sinai inhabitants or regular visitors to the peninsula's holiday resorts.
One bombing at the Hilton Hotel in Taba, a town just across the Israeli border, left 28 dead, the Israeli military said, and another attack killed two more at a backpacker resort in Nuweiba, further south.
But the death toll looked set to rise, with Israeli television quoting rescuers as saying another 20 bodies may still lie beneath the rubble of the luxury hotel.
At least 120 people were wounded in the attacks, Israeli officials said.
The explosions followed warnings last month from Israel that its people should keep out of the Sinai because of possible attacks.
Despite official warnings of possible attacks in the Sinai, resorts were packed with Israelis at the time of the bombings, with an estimated 30,000 Israelis having crossed the border during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
While some Israelis questioned why the border had not been closed following the warnings, officials called Saturday on all Israelis remaining in the Sinai to leave as quickly as possible.
A group calling itself Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam and claiming to be part of the militant Al-Qaeda network took responsibility for the blasts in a statement posted on an Islamist website.
"The Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam give our Arab and Islamic nation the good news of the heroic martyrdom operations in Egypt, through which our sons in the squad of the leader martyr cleansed the land of Taba of the filth of the Jews," said the statement, which could not be independently verified.
The Egyptian press was united in condemning the attacks and in speculating about who was responsible.
The official Al-Ahram daily reported two Israeli ministers as "pointing an accusing finger at Al-Qaeda and excluding the Palestinians".
London-based Al-Hayat mentioned "Al-Qaeda's fingerprints" and said the attacks had achieved their objectives: "Killing as many Israeli tourists as possible and causing as much political, security and economic damage as possible to Egypt."
Egypt's tourism industry has only just recovered from the massacre of European tourists at Luxor in 1997.
Israel's deputy defence minister, Zeev Boim, said that the blasts "appear to be an international terror attack with the hallmarks of Al-Qaeda".
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said it was too early to determine who was responsible for the attacks, also claimed by two other groups.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that he had agreed with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to cooperate in the hunt for those responsible and in taking measures to avoid further attacks.
According to Israeli officials, the Hilton attack was carried out by a suicide bomber in a car carrying 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of explosives and a second suicide bomber blew himself up by the hotel pool.