Bomb Blast Near Presidential Palace in Egypt’s Capital Cairo
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Local EditorA bomb blast just 100 meters from a Cairo presidential palace wounded a woman passer-by in Egypt early Thursday, just hours after a train bomb killed three people, security officials said.
The UN's top human rights body meanwhile took Egypt to task Wednesday for a litany of rights abuses, including its crackdown on supporters of ousted Egytian President Mohammed Mursi, journalists and activists.The blast struck near a palace in the northeast of Cairo which is rarely used by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi whose main office is in another palace in the capital.
Moreover, the bystander suffered only minor injuries from the crude bomb, which was planted under a bridge, interior ministry spokesman, Hani Abdel Latif, said.
The new bombing followed an attack on a train north of the Egyptian capital late on Wednesday which killed two policemen and a civilian.
The policemen had been inspecting the rudimentary bomb after the train, in the Menufiya province north of Cairo, stopped at a station when the explosive went off, officials said.
The bomb exploded as police evacuated passengers from the carriage, also wounding 11 people, state television reported.
Additionally, another small bomb exploded about an hour later in a Cairo metro station, wounding three people, the state-run Al-Ahram news portal reported.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the attacks.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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