EGYPT-VIOLENCE/BOMB ATTACK At least two killed in bomb attack in Aswan - security sources

Record ID: 355220

  • Title: EGYPT-VIOLENCE/BOMB ATTACK At least two killed in bomb attack in Aswan - security sources
  • Date: 2nd March 2015
  • Summary: ASWAN, EGYPT (MARCH 1, 2015) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) CROWD GATHERED AT BLAST SITE CROWD APPROACHING SITE INSPECTORS AND RESIDENTS INSPECTING SITE
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2015 12:00
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  • Location: Egypt
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAC5ZEX50R2PXVB1WY0VQ45K3ER
  • Story Text: EDITORS NOTE: CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3
    Security sources said at least two people were killed and six others wounded late on Sunday (March 1) when a bomb exploded in the southern city of Aswan.
    The sources said the blast took place outside the Nasr Mosque on the Nile Corniche in the tourist city, about 300 meters from a police station in Aswan.
    Security cordoned the blast site and ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the two bodies to the morgue and the wounded to medical care, the sources added.
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