Bomb Wounds Four Egyptian Policemen, Civilian
[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 2015-01-24 |