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Roadside explosion in Cairo kills Egyptian policeman | |
2017-06-19 | |
[AlAhram] An Egyptian policeman was killed and four maimed by a roadside explosive near the Cairo suburb of Maadi on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. "At around 12:45 a.m. on June 18 as a vehicle belonging to the Central Security Forces transported a group of officers and conscripts an improvised bomb planted on the roadside went off," the ministry said. "This led to the martyrdom of First Lieutenant Ali Abdelkhaliq and the injury of four others, an officer and three conscripts, who have been taken to hospital for treatment." The bomb exploded remotely, and an initial examination suggested it exploded using a mobile phone SIM card, a senior Interior Ministry official told state news agency MENA. A joint task force made up of several police units is questioning tenants of flats overlooking the site of the attack to try to identify and arrest the culprits, the official said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility by any group. Egypt faces an Islamist insurgency led by ISIS group in North Sinai. Other holy warrior groups, which the government says are linked to the Moslem Brüderbund, are active in Cairo and other cities where they have targeted security forces, judges, and pro-government figures.
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