Car bomb Blast Injures 12 in Egypt

KABUL: (Middle East Press) Over 12 people have been injured in a car bombing incident in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, near the nation’s High Court of Justice, authorities said.

No dead have so far been reported as a result of the blast, which is the first major attack in the capital since a bombing outside the Foreign Ministry building in late September that killed two police officers.

Egypt’s Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdel Fattah Othman initially announced that nine civilians were wounded in the blast and that most of the injuries were minor.

 “It was not a car bomb. It was a homemade explosive device,” Othman was cited as stating to the Nile TV, adding that a number of shops were also damaged as a result of the incident.

Bomb experts were reportedly dispatched to the bombing site to probe the blast, media reports added.