Deadly car bomb attack on Italian Consulate in Cairo Egpyt
A policeman stands at the base of the crumbled facade of the Italian consulate following a blast that killed at least one person in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, July 11, 2015. (AP Photo/ Mohammed el-Raai)One person was killed Saturday in a powerful explosion that partly damaged the Italian consulate in central Cairo, health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said.
His statement came after a medic told an AFP journalist at the scene of the blast that it had wounded two policemen and three passers-by, but Abdel Ghaffar was unable to specify if the dead person was a member of the security forces or the public.
Egypt\’s official MENA news agency said that early indications were that the explosion was caused by a bomb that had been planted in a car parked near the consulate.
SOURCE: AFP
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