It appears as though the bomb was placed in a auto on the convoy’s route and that it was detonated remotely because there didn’t appear to be the body of a bomber at the scene of the explosion.
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But the claim couldn’t be independently verified and security officials said the bomb was not under the prosecutor’s vehicle.
Surrounded by the family of slain Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat, Sisi said that “speedy justice” was “fettered by the law”.
During an emergency meeting with Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al- Sisi, a former chief of military staff, called for tightened security measures and demanded the arrest of the perpetrators of the attack.
Two civilians and two police officers were also reportedly injured in the attack, which took place in the Heliopolis district of Cairo, outside a military college.
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-Egypt held on Tuesday a state funeral for its top judicial official who was killed in a bomb blast in Cairo on Monday.
Judicial sources told Reuters any amendments could also restrict the number of appeals to one from two and give judges final say on which witnesses could testify. We won’t wait for that.
The criminal procedures law would be amended “within days” to ensure that justice would be carried out as quickly as possible, he said.
Barakat has referred thousands of Islamists to trial since the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013. It equated the Brotherhood with extremist groups fighting in Iraq and Syria or killing tourists in Tunisia.
The Muslim Brotherhood has denied any link to recent militant bloodshed, reiterating what it calls a long commitment to non-violence. El-Sissi’s comments suggested he may aim to cut short that process.
The 65-year-old Barakat received multiple shrapnel wounds to the shoulder, chest and liver, according to a medical official at the nearby Nozha hospital. Pro-government media hailed Barakat as a “hero” and “martyr”.
Barakat died of organ failure caused by his severe wounds, a doctor who treated him said.
Security was boosted across the capital ahead of the funeral, with armoured personnel carriers positioned across town from early in the day and additional checkpoints set up. The government said it was canceling celebrations that had been planned for Tuesday to commemorate the start of the mass protests that preceded Morsi’s ouster. That group recently posted online a list of violent attacks it claimed to have conducted over the past year, killing more than 157 members of the military.
Authorities and pro-government TV networks quickly blamed the Brotherhood for Monday’s bombing, broadly accusing it of orchestrating violence. Both were among tens of the now banned group’s members who have been sentenced to death during the past year.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
