Islamic State Claims Responsibility For Booby-Trap Bomb In Cairo
January 22 2016
A explosion that went off during a police raid in Cairo on Thursday has left 10 people dead and more than a dozen injured, reports the Middle East Eye, citing local media.
The raid was made in the Al-Haram area of the Egyptian capital, near the Giza pyramids, reported official Al-Ahram newspaper.
A team of officers were raiding an apartment suspected to be a militant hideout, the Interior Ministry said.
The building was booby-trapped and the bomb went off when officers...
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