Massive car bomb explodes in Cairo

Last Updated Aug 20, 2015 5:17 AM EDTCAIRO -- A huge car bomb exploded early Thursday near a national-security building in a favorite residential area in Al-Qahirah, injure at least six cops and blowing out the facades off nearby structures, Egyptian security authorities said. There were no immediate reports of fatalities from the explosion, which demolished a wall facing the government-building and smashed its construction, leaving gaping holes exposing its workplaces. Glass from blown-out windows trashed the surrounding roads in the favorite Shubra el-Kheima area. Ambulances and fire trucks raced to the scene, that has been flooded with water from pipes damaged by what authorities said was a blast from large explosives. The explosion may be heard and felt from the other side of the town.
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Crisis assistance head Ahmed al-Ansari stated the six wounded were being evacuated to nearby hospitals. Wrecked autos stood round the building, as protection forces patrolled the roads and set up road blocks to defend against hysterical residents. The Islamic State-Of Iraq and Syria (IS-IS) affiliate located in the northern Sinai Peninsula issued a statement claiming responsibility for the assault. The declaration mentioned the blasting early Thursday was to avenge the execution of six condemned militants. The death sentences were completed in May. The declaration stated the "troopers of the caliphate" focused the building north of Cairo having a parked vehicle bomb. Inside his destroyed practice next door to the safety creating, plasticsurgeon Gawad Mahoud lamented Egypt's problems because the armed forces ousted Morsi, the nation's first freely elected president, amid huge demonstrations against his divisive year-long rule."We were here painting the workplace, and then it went off. It was like an earthquake, it blew the doors off and smashed all the windows in," he stated. "The explosion seemed professional, it had been not small time."Accessibility to the region was highly limited, even in the minutes following the blast, with tons of police officers, plain-clothes and uniformed, deterring any strategy. In the website, press qualifications of the few international journalists who were able to arrive were assessed repeatedly by authorities.
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Egypt continues to be wracked by means of a tide of strikes since President Abdel-Fattah el Sissi overthrew Morsi and found a significant crack down against his admirers and dissent in general. Last weekend, he decreed a new anti-terrorism legislation offered amid a tide of assaults and killings this summer. The far reaching new legislation establishes a far-reaching definition for who can confront a rigorous group of punishments. Journalists could be fined for reporting that contradicts Protection Ministry statements. Egypt has lacked a legislature for 36 months, and because being elected a little more than last year, elSissi has singlehandedly handed a large number of of laws. The Cabinet accepted the draft anti-terrorism legislation last month, two times following a car bomb in a upscale Cairo neighborhood killed the nation's prosecutor general, Hisham Barakat.On the day it had been approved by ministers, Islamic militants started a multi-pronged assault trying to capture a northern Sinai city, attacking the armed forces with suicide assaults and fighting soldiers for hours. The violence has mainly been confined to the restive northern area of the Sinai Peninsula, but Cairo as well as the rest of the mainland have already been rocked with some mainly small scale explosions targeting cops.A truck bomb in January 2014 targeting Al-Qahirah's safety headquarters killed four people and damaged a near-by museum focused on Islamic arts and history.A month before, a car-bomb ripped through a security headquarters in the Nile Delta town of Mansoura, killing 16 individuals, almost all police officers. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, as the Sinai outfit was understood before it vowed allegiance to the IS team a year ago, claimed liability.

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