Egypt's Interior Minister Survives Bomb Blast

Egypt's interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim has survived an assassination attempt.

The minister was travelling in a convoy in Cairo's eastern Nasr City district when an explosion took place, security officials and state television said.

Egyptian state TV said an explosive device was tossed from the rooftop of a high-rise apartment building near the residence of Mr Ibrahim - who is in charge of the country's police force - and the device detonated near the convoy of the minister shortly after it left the residence.

Mr Ibrahim later condemned the attack as a "cowardly assassination" attempt.

He said "many guards" were wounded in the blast from "a bomb that exploded at a distance".

Mr Ibrahim is part of the government that deposed President Morsi

Nasr City is a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which ousted President Mohamed Morsi hails.

It was also the site of a sit-in protest by his supporters that was stormed by police in mid August and which led to hundreds of deaths.

The former president was toppled in a military coup in July, following days of protests by millions of Egyptians who demanded his departure after a year in office.

During the six-week-long protest in Nasr City, many of Mr Morsi's supporters threatened to wage a campaign of violence against the military-backed government if he was not reinstated.

The pro-Morsi protests ended in violence, with hundreds of deaths

While there has been unrest and violence across Egypt since the coup, Thursday's attack marked the first time a senior government official has been targeted.

The former president has been held in an undisclosed location since being deposed.

Hundreds of Brotherhood leaders and supporters have been detained since the coup, including the group's supreme leader, Mohammed Badie, and his powerful deputy, Khairat el-Shater.

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