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| Bomb blast injures 16 people in Egypt's Tanta | |
| 2017-04-02 | |
| [AlAhram] At least 16 people, including 13 police conscripts, were maimed in a kaboom in the Egyptian Nile Delta city of Tanta in the vicinity of a police training centre, the interior ministry said on Saturday. "The bomb was planted in a cycle of violence parked near the centre and the area has been cordoned off and is being combed by security forces," the ministry said in a statement. A health ministry official in Tanta said all the injured are receiving treatment in hospital, including three civilians. Five of the injured are at death's door. Militant group Lewaa al-Thawra
Lewaa al-Thawra has grabbed credit for several attacks on security forces in recent months. The group said it had murdered a high-ranking army officer in Dahshur, south of Cairo, in October 2016 and grabbed credit for an attack on a security checkpoint in Menoufiya governorate, where two coppers were killed and five were maimed, two months earlier. | |
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