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A powerful carbombblast tore through a police building in the Shubra el-Kheima neighbourhood (on the northern tip of Cairo in Qalyubia) Thursday injuring at least 29 people. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State group and was targeting security forces. Affiliates of the "Islamic State" militant group in Egypt, known as "State of Sinai", claimed responsibility for the incident "to avenge six young men who were executed last March, after being charged of forming a militant cell in Qaliubiya named 'Arab Sharkas'", according to a statement by the militants. |
