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Two car bombs defused in a Giza street
[AlAhram] Three residential buildings in Giza were evacuated early on Friday after security forces received reports of explosives in the area and defused bombs in two nearby cars, security sources told Al-Ahram Arabic news website.The two cars were primed to explode by a road in the Faisal area, the sources said. Major General Ahmed Aboul-Enein, an expert at the explosives department, said that the two devices had been connected using an electric heater. Bombs and armed attacks on security personnel and sites have been common since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in summer 2013. Only some attacks have targeted civilians. Policeman killed in Egypt's Giza [AlAhram] An Egyptian policeman was killed on Friday in Egypt's Giza governorate at a railway crossing by unknown assailants, according to Al-Ahram's Arabic site. The attackers are still on the lam, and it was not immediately clear how the policeman was killed. Earlier Friday, two bombs were defused in Giza. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-02-27 |
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