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Egypt sentences six to death over policemen's killing
The court also handed down sentences of up to 10 years in jail to seven others in the case, in which two policemen were killed in the northern province of...
Egypt’s interior ministry has not commented on Saturday’s blast, which residents and media initially reported as probably the result of a faulty gas pipeline.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility and the cause of the blast was not yet known.
The jet reportedly sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board.
More than 200 people are being tried in connection with the protests, judicial sources have said.
The four attackers pulled up in a pick-up truck and sprayed a police vehicle using automatic weapons.
Security forces had arrested at least 382 people, Human Rights Watch said in a report this week.
UN experts have accused the govt of clamping down on NGOs as a cover-up for human rights violations.
Islamic State claimed responsibility on several websites, and Egyptian state media later confirmed it.
A statement from the Cairo security said the policeman had shot dead a driver after an argument.
Security source said the two attackers were riding a motor bike when they opened fire using machine guns.
The blasts in the city of al-Arish came a day after the second round of parliamentary elections closed.
The security guards found the bomb in front of the Meridien Hotel during their morning routine checks.
Shopkeeper Mohamed Ali said he saw a man park a vehicle that exploded after he stepped away from it.
Concern grows around the possibility that Islamist militants could open a new front against foreigners.
Supporters claim Farid Ismail died as a result of authorities’ failure to provide proper medical attention.
Egypt has already listed the Brotherhood as a terrorist organisation and jailed thousands of its supporters
Most militant attacks took place in the remote but strategic Sinai Peninsula.
Speculation has been growing that President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi could pardon or deport the men.