EGYPT: One Egyptian policeman is killed by a car bomb and 35 others are wounded in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia

Record ID: 357714

  • Title: EGYPT: One Egyptian policeman is killed by a car bomb and 35 others are wounded in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia
  • Date: 12th December 2013
  • Summary: ISMAILIA, EGYPT (DECEMBER 12, 2013) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF POLICE PERSONNEL INSPECT SITE OF CAR BOMB EXPLOSION / CLOSE UP OF TWISTED METAL AND RUBBLE MEN TALKING VARIOUS OF POLICE INSPECTING SITE OF EXPLOSION / MAN PICKING UP PIECE OF METAL FROM BOMBING SITE
  • Embargoed: 27th December 2013 12:00
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  • Location: Egypt
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Crime
  • Reuters ID: LVA3WFCZIWJUNU4VITJH4HSXLGPK
  • Story Text: An Egyptian police officer was killed and 35 others were injured when a car blew up near their base in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Thursday (December 12), security sources said.
    The sources added that six civilians were also injured in the attack.
    Militant attacks on the police and army have risen sharply in Egypt since the army ousted elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in July after mass protests against him.
    The security sources said intense gunfire was heard in the area of the police base after the car exploded.
    It was not clear if the attack was the work of a suicide bomber.
    Last month, a suicide car bombing killed at least 10 Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula, in one of the deadliest attacks there since Mursi's removal.
    State authority collapsed in northern Sinai, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, after President Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011, allowing an array of hardline Islamist groups to expand into a security vacuum.
    Security in Egypt worsened after Mursi was ousted, since when some 200 police and soldiers have been killed, according to an army official.
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