CAIRO: A bomb exploded outside the gates of Cairo University yesterday, an Egyptian police official said, wounding at least nine people including a senior officer.
The assistant police chief of Cairo’s Giza district was moderately wounded,as were six policemen stationed outside the campus to quell protests and three civilian passersby, an interior ministry official said.
Police cordoned off the area and scoured it with sniffer dogs. Scores of policemen and soldiers have been killed in militant attacks, mainly in the Sinai peninsula.
The blast occurred near the site of a bombing in April that killed a police general, and where riot policemen are stationed on foot and in armoured vehicles to confront frequent protests by pro-Islamist students. Police had clashed with students earlier in the day, an official said.
April’s attack was claimed by Ajnad Misr, a militant Islamist group that has killed several policemen in bombings around Cairo.
AFP
