Bombing near French supermarket kills 1, wounds 6 in Egypt
At least one person has lost his life and six others have sustained injuries in a bomb explosion that struck an area near a branch of the French supermarket giant, Carrefour, in Egypt’s northern port city of Alexandria.
Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bombing took place in the eastern Seyouf district of the city, located about 180 kilometers (111 miles) northwest of the capital, Cairo, on Sunday.
The force of the explosion damaged the facade of the building.
Police forces later cordoned off the area, and an investigation is underway to determine the motive of the attack.
Later in the day, another bomb went off outside Alexandria’s Muharram Bek police station, injuring one person.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the acts of terror. However, such incidents are usually blamed on the militants who have intensified terrorist attacks across Egypt since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi, the country’s former president, in July 2013.
Late on Friday night, a bomb blast occurred in front of a branch of an Emirati bank in the northern Egyptian city of el-Mahalla el-Kubra, located about 120 kilometers (74 miles) north of Cairo, killing a policeman and a civilian. Two of the bank’s employees were also wounded in the explosion.
Militants have been most active in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, where they have frequently targeted and killed Egypt’s security forces.
The so-called Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, a Takfiri militant group, has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in the highly volatile area.
In late January, the group killed dozens of people and injured many others in a series of coordinated attacks in Sinai.
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