One dead as bomb explodes near Egypt’s presidential palace
A small bomb exploded in the vicinity of the main presidential palace in the Egyptian capital on Monday, killing a police colonel ...
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A small
bomb exploded in the vicinity of the main presidential palace in the
Egyptian capital on Monday, killing a police colonel and wounding three
street cleaners, police officials told Agence France-Presse.
The attack occured on the day Egypt is
preparing for celebrations to mark the anniversary of June 30 protests
last year which lead to the ouster of Islamist President Mohammad Mursi.
There is expected to be a high turnout in
Cairo’s Tahrir Square, where protests were staged last year demanding
the “withdrawal of confidence” from then President Mursi.
Last year, a campaign saw mass protests calling for Mursi to
step down exactly 12 months after he was inaugurated. The campaign,
named Tamarod (Arabic for “rebellion”), accused Mursi of “threatening
his own people” and rejected Muslim Brotherhood rule.
It has been a turbulent year for Egypt which
has seen a new constitution and president be installed. Sisi resigned
from the army and became a candidate in the presidential elections last
month which he won in a landslide vote.
In a statement to the press on Monday, Cairo
governor Dr. Mustafa Jalal al-Said has said that security forces will be
on high alert throughout the day.
The last time large crowds gathered in the
Square was during celebrations on Sisi’s inauguration day earlier this
month. But the celebrations were mired by a sexual assault on a woman by
a mob in the Square.