Homeless Egyptian stabs an American near US Embassy in Cairo

A homeless Egyptian man has stabbed an American citizen in the neck with a knife near the American Embassy in Garden City district Thursday, according to Al-Ahram Arabic language news website.

Families in the neighbourhood helped the embassy’s security personnel arrest the homeless man as he was trying to escape.

Cairo’s security manager ordered the suspect referred to investigation by the general prosecution.

Embassy doctors provided aid to the American citizen and facilitated his transferr to a hospital. It’s still unclear the motives of the attacker.

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