A wave of bomb attacks injured severals in Cairo

Four small bombs have exploded Wednesday in three metro stations in Cairo, leaving at least four people injured, police and rescue officials said. In the district of Heliopolis, north of the capital, a fifth device exploded outside a court building leaving one wounded, as reported by Reuters chief Bomb disposal unit of the Egyptian capital, the general Alaa Abdel Zaher Division. Service lines 1 and 2 of the Suburban has been restored. These new attacks amid the crackdown by authorities against the Islamist opposition in Egypt.

One of the explosive devices “very primary clothing” and ” low power ” has exploded, according to Agence France Presse, during rush hour in the tourist center in the capital. Reuters indicates that this is the metro station Ghamra. Two other devices exploded in the short intervals between stations Shubra el-Kheima and Hadayek al-Kobba in a northern district of the city.

The Interior Ministry, quoted by state news agency Mena, said that one of the bombs wounded four people. According to a senior official of the ministry, one of the wounded in Shubra station is the person who was carrying an homemade artifact.

These new attacks came a month after the election of the Sisi Abdelfatá former chief of the Army and leader of the coup in June 2013 against Mohamed Morsi (Muslim Brotherhood) – the head of government of the country after an election in which it had 96.9% of the vote. Since then, Egypt is undergoing a period of instability marked by violence, especially attacks by Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula against targets of the security forces.

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