Muslim Brotherhood bombing kills 2, injures 9 in Cairo

REUTERS – Two people were killed after a bomb exploded near a top court building in central Cairo on Monday, the health ministry said, extending a series of such attacks in the Egyptian capital.

The repeated security incidents in Cairo have raised concern over the effectiveness of security forces who have pledged to end Islamist militant violence bedeviling government efforts to revive investment and foreign tourism crucial to the economy and stability of the Arab world’s most populous country.

An Interior Ministry statement said the bomb exploded under a car near the courthouse, wounding police and civilians. Health ministry spokesman Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar later told Reuters that two civilians were killed and there were nine wounded.

Security sources said the public prosecutor, whose office is in the building, was inside at the time of the blast. They said he had since left to inspect the scene of the attack.

Crowds gathered in front of the court, where police had blocked off nearby roads. There was some damage to two cars in the area and blood splattered on a nearby pavement.

Monday’s attack was the second in less than a week in Cairo. There were four bombings in the capital on Thursday. One person was killed and two were wounded in one of the attacks outside a restaurant in the residential Imbaba district of the capital, the Interior Ministry said.

While most of the worst attacks in Egypt have hit the Sinai Peninsula, a remote but strategic region bordering Gaza and Israel that is a hotbed of Islamist militants, smaller blasts have become increasingly common in Cairo and other cities.

KEEP READING…

After meeting with our State Department, the Muslim Brotherhood issued an uncompromising jihad to take back Egypt which is the reason for all the attacks lately.

It’s looking more and more these days like Egypt is surrounded by the Muslim Brotherhood Islamo-Nazis. Libya is overrun with multiple terrorist groups, including ISIS. The Sudan is one of the places where the Muslim Brotherhood ran for protection after el-Sisi took power back from Morsi. And now the Sinai is under siege as well. You can bet that once Syria falls to Turkey and this war with Egypt escalates, Jihads won’t have far to go join the war to overthrow the el-Sisi government.


Comment Policy: Please read our comment policy before making a comment. In short, please be respectful of others and do not engage in personal attacks. Otherwise we will revoke your comment privileges.