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Egypt Interior ministry denies state TV report of bomb

Arab World Materials 26 May 2014 13:38 (UTC +04:00)
Egypt's Interior Ministry denied an earlier report on state TV of a homemade bomb exploding outside a polling station in the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, on the first day of voting in presidential elections
Egypt Interior ministry denies state TV report of bomb

Egypt's Interior Ministry denied an earlier report on state TV of a homemade bomb exploding outside a polling station in the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, on the first day of voting in presidential elections, Reuters reported.

In a post on the ministry's Facebook page, it wrote that the explosion-like sound had in fact been a car backfiring.

Egypt has faced a surge in violence after the army ousted the country's first democratically elected president Mohamed Mursi in July following mass protests against his rule and announced a roadmap that would see presidential and parliamentary elections this year.

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