Bomb 'targets' Egyptian Interior Minister
Egypt's Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim has survived a car bomb attack that targeted his convoy in Cairo.
Hours after the blast, he appeared on state-run TV to denounce the attack as a "cowardly assassination bid".
Many guards were injured, he added, after a bomb "exploded at a distance" as his convoy was en route from his home in Nasr City to the ministry.
Nasr City is a stronghold of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group, but there is no word on who was involved.
The BBC's Arab Affairs Editor Sebastian Usher said the attack marked a new phase of instability in Egypt.
05 Sep 2013
- From the section Middle East