{"id":3510,"date":"2014-07-03T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T04:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2014-07-03T11:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T04:16:24","slug":"egypt-arrested-islamist-militants-over-bombs-blasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-arrested-islamist-militants-over-bombs-blasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt arrested Islamist militants over bombs blasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces &#8220;arrested four suspected of being involved in the latest blasts that happened near the presidential palace,&#8221; a security official said.<\/p>\n<p>They were &#8220;among the most dangerous terrorist elements of Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) and are being interrogated,&#8221; the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Three were arrested at dawn in the southern Cairo suburb of Helwan, while the fourth was detained in the capital&#8217;s Nasr City district, he said.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2014\/Jul-02\/262404-egypt-nabs-militants-over-bombs-blasts.ashx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,2032,2029,2028,2031,4697,415,356,2030,257,4694,2033,254],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ansar-beit-al-maqdis","tag-bomb-blasts","tag-bomb-blasts-near-a-presidential-palace","tag-dangerous-terrorist-elements","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-islamist-militant-group","tag-ittihadeya-palace","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-partisans-of-jerusalem","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}