Defence Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday that Egypt will stand strong in the face of terrorism, two days after a bomb blast at a security building in the Nile Delta’s city of Manosura, at a military graduation ceremony of new officers.
The car bomb attack killed 16 people and injured over 100 people, in its aftermath the government designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group while Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a Sinai-based militant group, took responsibility for the blast.
“Do not let these fierce terrorist incidents affect you or your spirits, we are on the right path, you wanted freedom and independence… which will not come easy, you have to trust in God, in yourselves, in your army and civil police,” Sisi said.
Sisi, who led Islamist President Mohamed Mursi’s ouster in July after mass protests against him, said that what is currently happening would not shake Egypt or its people.
“The people will not be afraid as long as the Egyptian Army exists.”
A homemade bomb exploded in Cairo’s Nasr City early on Thursday, which injured five people. The authorities said that they dismantled two other bombs nearby to the blast’s location.
This content is from : Aswat Masriya