29 injured in Egypt blast, IS claims responsibility

A vehicle bomb damaged the front of the police building in Qalyubia province near Cairo, reports said.

Thursday’s bombing left a wide crater near to the four-storey concrete police building. For blocks across the blast website within the very popular residential neighborhood, glass from blown-out windows could possibly be seen on the road.

Militants loyal to Islamic State claimed responsibility for a powerful auto bomb that detonated hours before dawn Thursday outside a security headquarters on Cairo’s northern outskirts, causing dozens of injuries.

ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on Twitter, saying it was to avenge the execution of six of its own back in May.

The militants have targeted Egyptian security officials.

The main, Sinai-based militant organization, which swore allegiance to the Islamic State group last year, has shown worrying signs of the Iraq- and Syria-based extremists’ notorious brutality – most notably, the beheading this month of a Croatian captive. The claim, which said the group was made up of defected Egyptian army officers, could not be verified.

The Egyptian interior ministry says a man fled on a motorbike after leaping out of a auto which then exploded.

Hundreds of members of the Muslim Brotherhood have been sentenced to death in mass trials since Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former army chief, overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

Rights groups, which have accused Sisi of imposing a repressive regime, fear the new law could be used to further muzzle dissent and target critics.

Journalists will be fined for contradicting the authorities’ version of any “terrorist” attack.

Egypt has lacked a legislature for 3 years, and since being elected just a little over a yr in the past, el-Sissi has single-handedly handed dozens of legal guidelines.

While the violence has been largely confined to northern Sinai, attacks are gradually spreading to other areas, including Cairo. The bombing killed one person and destroyed part of the Italian Consulate in central Cairo, the group’s first attack on a foreign diplomatic mission.