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Egypt: Explosion Kills a Police Officer Egypt: Explosion Kills a Police Officer
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An explosive device struck a police patrol in Cairo on Friday, fatally wounding one police officer and injuring nine others, as street battles broke out in a nearby district known as a hot spot for pro-Islamist demonstrations. The Interior Ministry said a police officer died from wounds suffered in the attack on his patrol in eastern Cairo’s populous Ein Shams district. One of the injured was a civilian, the ministry said. Egypt’s official news agency, MENA, reported earlier that security forces had sealed off the area, diverted traffic and deployed explosives experts to search for other bombs. An Egyptian militant group, Ajnad Misr, said on its Twitter account that its members had targeted the security forces as they were heading to the nearby Alf Maskan district — a flash point for near-weekly clashes between the security forces and Islamist demonstrators. Subsequent protests in the district were forcibly dispersed by the police. An explosive device struck a police patrol in Cairo on Friday, fatally wounding one police officer and injuring nine others, as street battles broke out in a nearby district known as a hot spot for pro-Islamist demonstrations. The Interior Ministry said a police officer died from wounds suffered in the attack on his patrol in eastern Cairo’s populous Ein Shams district. One of the injured was a civilian, the ministry said. Egypt’s official news agency, MENA, reported earlier that security forces had sealed off the area, diverted traffic and searched for other bombs. An Egyptian militant group, Ajnad Misr, said on its Twitter account that its members had targeted the security forces as they were heading to the nearby Alf Maskan district, the scene of near-weekly clashes between the security forces and Islamist demonstrators. Subsequent protests in the district were dispersed by the police.