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| Egypt Blast Kills One, Wounds 28 |
| 2013-07-25 |
| [AnNahar] A blast Wednesday at a cop shoppe in a Nile Delta city killed one person and maimed 28, a medic said, in the latest incidence of violence sweeping Egypt since president Mohammed Morsi's ouster. Mohamed Sultan, deputy head of the emergency services, told Agence La Belle France Presse an bomb went off very early in the morning outside a cop shoppe in the city of Mansura, in Dahqaliya province. He put the toll at "28 maimed and one dead", while state media reported that the dead man was a police conscript. A previous toll from security sources said that the kaboom had maimed eight members of the security forces. The blast came after festivities between supporters and opponents of Morsi, deposed by the military on July 3, killed at least 13 people across Egypt since Monday. Mansura has seen previous unrest, with three women protesters dying in festivities at a rally in support of Morsi in the city on Friday. Tensions have been high across Egypt as supporters of Morsi press protests calling for his reinstatement, even as the country's military-backed cabinet tries to get down to work. Nearly 170 people have died in political unrest in Egypt since the end of June, according to an AFP tally. Violence in Sinai, where the government faces a low-level insurgency, has in the same period killed around another 40, including security services personnel, civilians and Death Eaters. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Never heard of police being conscripted before. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2013-07-25 04:04 |