A bomb
blast near Egypt's foreign ministry killed two police officers and wounded
several others on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said, in the most serious
attack in Cairo in almost three months.
There was
no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack which killed two police
lieutenant colonels. But the operation resembled ones carried out by Islamist
insurgents seeking to topple the U.S.-backed government.
The 10:45
a.m. blast in Cairo targeted a police checkpoint near the back gate of the
34-story ministry building. Several people were wounded, said the ministry. It
identified the two officers as Lt. Cols. Khaled Saafan and Mohammed Abu Sreeah.
It said several other policemen were wounded by the blast, including a police
major general and another lieutenant colonel.
Prime
Minister Ibrahim Mahlab cut short a tour of the Suez Canal city of Ismailia and
headed back to Cairo following news of the explosion.
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