 CAIRO - Four Egyptians were killed and another wounded when a device accidentally exploded on Wednesday at a mechanical workshop in the low-income Cairo neighborhood of Imbaba, security sources said.
An 18-year-old mechanic, Radi Mahmum Abdul Latif, was using the silver-coated metal device to try to unscrew part of a car when it went off, killing him, two other mechanics and the carÂ’s owner.
Abdul LatifÂ’s brother and owner of the workshop, Mohammed Mahmud Abdul Latif Abu Radi, reportedly told police he had bought the device from a scrap metal merchant and had no idea it was explosive. Security sources said they thought the object might have been an old anti-aircraft rocket.
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