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At least three dead, dozens injured in Cairo police HQ bombing

24 January 2014, 10:05

At least three people killed and 37 others injured in powerful car bomb blast near the Cairo Security Directorate, the Interior Ministry reported.

A car bomb struck Cairo police headquarters on Friday, killing at least three people in an early morning blast heard across the Egyptian capital, police and health ministry officials said.

The explosion sent a large plume of smoke billowing above the city and left a deep crater in the street.

'It was a car bomb,' interior ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said.

State television reported at least three dead and 35 wounded in the explosion, which blew out the windows of the building in the central Cairo district of Abdeen.

The blast destroyed a metal gate outside the multi-storey building and badly damaged its facade as well as that of a nearby Islamic museum.

Riot police pushed back hundreds of onlookers, some of whom chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood.

Militants have escalated attacks since the military overthrow Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July.

Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has denied involvement in the attacks, but was blacklisted as a terrorist group after 15 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a police headquarters north of Cairo in December.

An Al-Qaeda inspired group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for that attack.

Car bomb explodes in front of Cairo police HQ, one dead

A car bomb struck Cairo police headquarters, killing at least one person in a blast heard across the capital, Egyptian police and health ministry officials said.

The explosion sent a large plume of smoke billowing above the city and left a deep crater in the street.

'It was a car bomb,' interior ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said.

A health ministry official said at least one person was killed in the explosion, which blew out the windows of the police headquarters in the central Cairo district of Abdeen.

The blast destroyed a metal gate outside the multi-storey building and badly damaged its facade, an AFP correspondent said.

Large blast heard in Cairo, smoke seen rising over city centre

A large blast was heard in Cairo on Friday and smoke was seen rising over the city centre, a witness said.

There was no immediate indication of the cause of the blast.

Voice of Russia, Reuters, AFP

Source: http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_01_24/ At-least-three-dead-in-Cairo- police-HQ-bombing-8278/