Interior Minister checks on Alex blast injured, perpetrators to be identified soon

CAIRO – 24 March 2018: Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, accompanied by Alexandria’s security chief, police Major General Mostafa al-Nemr, visited the Mostafa Kamel Hospital for Armed Forces to check on personnel who were injured due to an explosion in central Alexandria.

A bomb planted under a car exploded in central Alexandria on Saturday, killing two policemen and injuring six others.

State TV reported that the improvised explosive device (IED) targeted Alexandria’s security chief. The IED, which was detonated in Al Moaaskar Al Romani st. in Sidi Gaber neighborhood, terrorized citizens in the area and smashed and shattered the windows of some buildings and damaged some vehicles nearby, according to eyewitnesses.

The interior minister said in press remarks that investigation into the incident revealed some information about the identities of the perpetrators.

The minister deemed the incident as a “desperate attempt to destabilize Egypt’s safety and stability and break the will of Egyptians.” “Egypt is going the right track in encountering terrorism, these coward actions will not defeat our determination to eliminate terrorism.”