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| 12 dead after blast rocks Egypt police station |
| 2013-12-25 |
| [USATODAY] A powerful kaboom believed to be caused by a boom-mobile destroyed a police headquarters in a Nile Delta city north of Cairo early on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding more than 100, leaving scores buried under the rubble. The country's interim government accused the Moslem Brüderbund of orchestrating the attack, branding it a "terrorist organization." It was the first major bombing in the Nile Delta, spreading the carnage that has marked Egypt's turmoil over the past months to a new area and bringing it closer to Cairo. Previous deadly violence has mostly taken place in the volatile Sinai Peninsula and in Suez Canal-area cities east of the Egyptian capital. The 1:10 a.m. blast struck at the security headquarters in the city of Mansoura, 70 miles north of Cairo in the Nile Delta province of Daqahliya, collapsing an entire section and side wall of the five-floor building, incinerating dozens of cars outside and damaging several nearby buildings. The state news agency MENA said 12 people were killed, including eight coppers, and that 134 were maimed, among them the city's security chief and his assistant. Most of the victims were coppers, many of whom were buried beneath the debris. News Agency that Dare Not be Named video from the scene showed bulldozers clearing the rubble outside the security headquarters, as charred and wrecked cars littered the street. Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim toured the scene of the kaboom at daybreak, pledging that the police will "continue their battle against the dark terrorist forces that tried to tamper with the country's security," then went to hospital to visit the maimed. MENA quoted Cabinet front man Sherif Shawki as saying that the Brotherhood showed its "ugly face as a terrorist organization, shedding blood and messing with Egypt's security." Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi described the attack as a "terrorist incident," expressed condolences to the families of the victims and vowed that the perpetrators "will not escape justice." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 its probably not the Bruderbund as that group has never done a car bombing like this before however, the fact that the locals immediately blamed the bruderbund is fine with me |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-12-25 10:15 |