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Cairo Bomb Exploded Prematurely - Government
A bomb which killed three tourists in a Cairo bazaar last week exploded prematurely, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Monday, suggesting that it may not have been a deliberate suicide operationThe bomber was an engineering student who was born in 1987 and who recently began to take an interest in the ideas of militant Islamists, it said in a statement. It named him as Hassan Rafaat Ahmed Bishindi, who lived in the north Cairo suburb of Shubra el-Kheima and went to the Benha branch of Zagazig University in the east of the Nile Delta. Egyptian prosecution sources had named him on Sunday as Mohamed Sobhi Ali Jidan, 24. "All the evidence indicates that while the perpetrator was preparing the bomb for explosion, the explosion took place," the statement said. His badly damaged body was found in the street in the Moski area of old Cairo, where the bomb exploded. The explosion on Thursday killed a French woman, a French man and an American man, as well as the bomber. Eighteen people were injured -- 11 Egyptians and seven foreigners. Rest at link. Posted by: ed 2005-04-11 |
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