17 dead in car explosion in Egypt: health ministry
Monday August 05 2019
A car driving against traffic in central Cairo collided with three other cars, causing the explosion, Egypt’s interior ministry said in a statement. PHOTO | REUTERS
Cairo,
Seventeen people have died and 32 have been injured in an explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute in central Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said early on Monday.
A car driving against traffic on Cairo’s corniche collided with three other cars, causing the explosion, Egypt’s interior ministry said in a statement.
Egypt’s public prosecutor is investigating the cause of the incident, sources told Reuters, but there was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack.