Roadside blast in Cairo kills Egyptian military officer
Police examine a site of a explosve blast in Cairo, Egypt. PHOTO: REUTERS
CAIRO: An Egyptian policeman was killed and 4 bleeding by a roadside explosve nearby a Cairo suburb of Maadi on Sunday, a Interior Ministry pronounced in a statement.
“At around 12:45 am on Jun 18 as a car belonging to a Central Security Forces ecstatic a organization of officers and conscripts an makeshift explosve device planted on a roadside went off,” a method said.
“This led to a martyrdom of First Lieutenant Ali Abdelkhaliq and a damage of 4 others, an officer and 3 conscripts, who have been taken to sanatorium for treatment.”
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The explosve was detonated remotely, and an initial hearing suggested it was detonated regulating a mobile phone SIM card, a comparison Interior Ministry central told state news organization MENA.
A corner charge force done adult of several troops units is doubt tenants of flats unaware a site of a conflict to try to brand and detain a culprits, a central said. There was no evident explain of shortcoming by any group.
Egypt faces an rebellion led by a Islamic State organization in a excitable Sinai Peninsula, where hundreds of soldiers and troops have been killed given 2013. The organization has also increasingly carried out attacks in a mainland on confidence army and Coptic Christian civilians in new months, murdering around 100 Copts given December.
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Other belligerent groups, that a supervision says are related to a Muslim Brotherhood, are active in Cairo and other cities where they have targeted confidence forces, judges, and pro-government figures.
The Brotherhood, outlawed in 2013 after a troops suspended one of a leaders, Mohamed Mursi, from a presidency following mass protests, maintains that it is a pacific organisation.
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a ubiquitous who led Mursi’s ouster, was inaugurated boss in 2014.
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