An Egyptian security source on Monday denied the report that suicide bomber in the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat earlier in the day entered Israel from the Egyptian border, a local Egyptian TV reported.

The statements of some Israeli police and military officials indicating that entrance of the suicide bomber from the southern Sinai peninsula in Egypt are incorrect, Egypt Nile News channel quoted the source as saying.

It was impossible for the perpetrators or their explosives to come from Egypt as security patrols and secret security measures had been taken throughout the area, the source said.

Moreover, he added that Egyptian security authorities has tightened the security measures along borders, roads and inside cities in southern Sinai to investigate any suspected persons, especially strangers, following the Eilat attack.

Three Palestinian military groups, namely the Islamic Jihad, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement and the previously unknown "Army of Believers" later claimed responsibility for the attack, which left four people dead including the suicide bomber.

Likewise, Jordanian government officials also denied on Monday that the suicide bomber of Eilat attack has entered Israel across Jordan, according to official Egyptian MENA news agency, although Islamic Jihad, one of the groups that claimed to have sent the attacker, reportedly said it had smuggled him from the Gaza Strip to Jordan and then into Israel.

Source: Xinhua