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| Explosive device found and defused near school in North Sinai |
| 2013-12-30 |
| [Al Ahram] Security forces in Egypt's North Sinai discovered an explosive placed near the Al-Zakhrafia school in the city of Al-Arish on Sunday. A security source said that they were informed of the presence of "a strange device in the vicinity of the school," which was later defused and taken to a safe place for disposal, the state-owned news agency MENA reported. Egypt has witnessed three kabooms on the course of the past week. A bomb rocked the Security Directorate building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura on Tuesday, killing 16 people and injuring more than 135. On Sunday, four soldiers were maimed in an kaboom near the Sharqiya Governorate's Military Intelligence Headquarters, while on Thursday a smaller kaboom near a public bus in eastern Cairo's Nasr City injured five people. Explosives experts also defused a bomb near the Nasr City kaboom site, which reportedly targeted security forces expected to rush to the scene following the blast. On Saturday, the discovery of a dummy bomb in Alexandria University caused a stir on campus among students and professors. Experts who examined the bomb found it to be devoid of kaboom. Militant attacks have spiked since the July ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator... . While initially centred in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, the attacks have recently extended to additional governorates. |
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