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Policeman succumbs to injuries from Egypt's Tanta terror blast
2017-04-03
[AlAhram] A 35-year-old low-ranking police officer, Mohammed Ahmed Nofal, died Saturday night from injuries sustained in a kaboom near a police training centre in Egypt's Nile Delta city of Tanta, al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.

A Tanta health ministry official said four of the injured were still in a critical condition and undergoing surgery.

A military funeral for the policeman will be held later Sunday, according to authorities.

On Saturday night, Lewaa al-Thawra
...The Revolution Brigade, which along with Hasm (Decisiveness or Determination) is one of the fighting arms of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, established to fight back against the overthrow of President Morsi...
posted a new statement on their Twitter account under the name of "traps for traitors", referring to 20 casualties, and claiming their attack as Dire Revenge of their "four deaders" who were killed last month, and also for "the residents of Basarta in Damietta."

A heavy security crackdown has been in effect in Basrata village in the northern governorate of Damietta for the past few days. Officials were reported in local newspapers as saying that the crackdown was to arrest gunnies who killed a low-ranking policeman in the village.
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