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Africa North
Bomb Wounds Four Egyptian Policemen, Civilian
2015-01-24
[AnNahar] A bomb in Cairo maimed four coppers and a civilian Friday, officials said.

It was the second in the capital in as many days, after an kaboom maimed a police officer late Thursday outside the Al-Qubba presidential palace.

The bomb went kaboom! in the Alf Maskan district, where the injured coppers were stationed to confront expected protests by Islamist opposition activists.

A civilian was also maimed, state news agency MENA said quoting the health ministry.

The blast came ahead of Sunday's fourth anniversary of the outbreak of an 18-day uprising that drove former president Hosni Mubarak
...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
from power 2011.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Well, it does take a while to get to Cairo from the Gaza border...
Posted by: Pappy   2015-01-24 11:45  

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