Acting Prosecutor General Ali Omran referred the suspects in the attack launched last June on security checkpoints outside the Karnak Temple to military trial on Thursday.
A statement by the General Prosecution service said the referral was based on a law issued in October 2014 that allows army forces to back police in guarding public facilities and to enjoy a jurisdiction over crimes committed in their vicinity.
Two suicide attackers were killed and two policemen were wounded in the attack.
The incident adds to the hardships Egypt is facing as it tries to revive the tourism industry amid rising security challenges and mounting terrorist attacks. The event was a stark reminder of the 1997 killing of more than 50 tourists by Islamist militants at the Hatshepsut Temple in the same province.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
