CAIRO: Egyptian police arrested Wednesday four members of an Islamist militant group over bomb blasts near a presidential palace, although another group claimed it had planted the explosives.
Two bomb disposal experts, a police colonel and lieutenant colonel, were killed Monday as they attempted to defuse bombs outside the Ittihadeya palace in eastern Cairo.
Security forces “arrested four suspected of being involved in the latest blasts that happened near the presidential palace,” a security official said.
They were “among the most dangerous terrorist elements of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) and are being interrogated,” the official added.
Three were arrested at dawn in the southern Cairo suburb of Helwan, while the fourth was detained in the capital’s Nasr City district, he said.
Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has claimed some of the deadliest attacks in Egypt since the ouster of Islamist president Mohammad Morsi last July…
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