Kamailoudini Tagba is UNESCO scholarship Alumni, interested in global Relations studies and Security Studies.
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State-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported an explosion occurred in Cairo’s Imbaba district but gave no other immediate details. It also shattered colored glass windows and cracked the walls of a nearby palace built by Muhammad Ali, an early 19th-century ruler of Egypt. Wrecked automobiles stood across the constructing, as safety forces patrolled the streets and arrange roadblocks to push back hysterical residents.
Thursday’s bombing left a wide crater near to the four-storey concrete police building.
The law “increases authorities’ power to impose heavy sentences, including the death penalty, for crimes under a definition of terrorism that is so broadly worded it could encompass civil disobedience”, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday. Primarily targets military personnel and policemen.
The Egyptian affiliate of IS, the Sinai Province, has regularly attacked security forces since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
At Thursday’s blast site, a tragic sense of resignation was palpable.
A plastic surgeon, whose neighbouring clinic was severly damaged in the blast described the explosion as “like an earthquake”. “We are not living in a normal state here”.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
Six policemen have been injured as a large bomb went off near a national security building in Cairo, Egyptian officials said.
Egypt has been wracked by a wave of attacks since President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi overthrew Morsi and launched a heavy crackdown against his supporters and dissent in general.
That led to a provision in the new anti-terrorism law calling for heavy fines against journalists whose accounts of militant attacks diverge from official statements issued by Egyptian authorities.
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Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, once the most influential grass-roots organisation in the country, has been blacklisted as a “terrorist” organisation.
