One killed in blast outside police station in Egypt's Alexandria
Xinhua, January 27, 2015 Adjust font size:
One person was killed and two others were injured on Tuesday when a bomb went off inside their car near a police station in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria, official news agency MENA reported.
Initial investigations have revealed that four persons belonging to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, were inside a car with a bomb which exploded when attempting to use it, the report said.
The attackers were intended to plant the bomb in the vicinity of the police station, MENA added.
The explosion came two days after Egypt marked the fourth anniversary of its 2011 revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak.
The anniversary clashes between the police and the protesters, mostly supporters of Brotherhood, from which ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi hails, left 23 persons killed and nearly 100 injured.
Egypt has been suffering a political unrest over the past four years which witnessed the ouster of two presidents, the long ruler Hosni Mubarak and his successor Islamist leader Morsi.
In August 2013, nearly 1,000 Morsi's supporters have been killed in crackdown and thousands in prison, which raged the anger of the Islamists in retaliation. Hundreds of police and army men were killed in Islamist attacks following Morsi's ouster.
Egyptian police arrested 516 supporters of the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood during the 2011 unrest anniversary violence, the interior minister said Monday.
"The arrestees were involved in firing ammunition, planting explosives and bombing some facilities," Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said.
Waves of explosions and bombings which mainly targetted the security men, and the electricity plant, hit the country after the removal of Morsi.
On Monday, the bomb disposal team has managed to defuse eight bombs in Cairo, three of them outside the New Cairo Court on Monday.
On Sunday, three suspected militants also died when they mistakenly blew themselves up while planting explosives in the Nile Delta region. Endit