Egypt minister says attack just ‘the beginning’

Egypt’s interior minister said a bomb attack on his convoy on Thursday was “not the end but the beginning” of a new wave of terrorism, but that the authorities would win out.

Responding to a question on whether the attack marked the start of “a new wave of terrorism”, Mohamed Ibrahim said: “What happened today is not the end but the beginning”.

He added that citizens needed to take care.

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