[ARABNEWS] A bomb struck a bus carrying Egyptian coppers Monday, killing three and wounding 33, officials said, in the latest attack against security forces who are being targeted by radicals.The attack occurred in the Nile Delta province of Baheira, 260 km north of Cairo, while the coppers were travelling on a civilian bus to work.
"Three coppers were killed, including one who succumbed to his wounds in hospital," Health Ministry front man Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told AFP, updating an earlier toll.
"Thirty-three coppers were also maimed. One of them remains in a critical condition."
Radicals have killed scores of coppers and soldiers since an insurgency swelled in the wake of the 2013 overthrow of President Muhammad Mursi.
Radicals say their attacks are in retaliation for a police crackdown targeting Mursi supporters that has left hundreds dead and thousands placed in durance vile
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With his security forces battling to contain the insurgency, President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi
...former general under Mubarak, then Defense Minister. Egypt overthrew Mubarak and endured a year of ham-fisted Moslem Brüderbund rule so al-Sissi could run for President-for-Life...
last week ratified an anti-terrorism law boosting police and judicial powers.