Truck blast kills 10
NZPA-Reuter Cairo About 10 people were killed and 15 injured when a truck carrying illegal explosives blew up in a poor southern suburb of Cairo yesterday, the police said. Officials were investigating the blast, which
gating .lie iast. which destroyed or damaged dozens of houses, “but you can draw your own conclusions,” Colonel Ismail Abdel-Aziz told Reuters. His comment indicated the Government did not rule out the possibility that the dynamite on the small civilian truck was intended for sabotage.
There was no immediate Government statement. In Beirut, the Voice of Lebanon Radio said a telephone caller who said he spoke for the Muslim fundamentalist Islamic Jihad (Holy War) group had claimed responsibility
* for a “car bomb explosion” in Cairo. f At least two children i were among those killed I when the explosion ripped i through Tebein, 30 km : south of the capital, at ► about 6 a.m. (local time), ' the police said.
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