Nearly 200 people have been arrested in Egypt in a crackdown after a series of demonstrations and small bombings marked the anniversary of the ouster of Egypt’s President Mohamed Morsi.
One of the bombs went off accidentally inside an apartment outside Cairo, killing two men who were handling the explosives, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
It said the men were in the apartment with two friends who fled after the blast in Kirdasah.
A security official said one Morsi supporter was killed during clashes between protesters and security forces in Cairo’s twin city Giza. Late on Thursday, a homemade bomb went off on a train in Alexandria, injuring five passengers, another official said. The bomb was placed in a suitcase under a chair- in a rare incident of directly targeting civilians…
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