CAIRO, Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
CAIRO, Oct 31, 2012 (AFP)
Egyptian police seized dozens of bombs and arrested several people on Wednesday allegedly planning attacks in the
country, the interior ministry said, in an apparent crackdown on militants.
The ministry said police found 83 bombs in a car on a highway outside Cairo, and later arrested two men allegedly linked to them.
At a Cairo apartment, they also seized half a kilogramme (one pound) of ball bearings, which can be used in bombs to cause greater damage and injury, and a manual on bomb manufacture.
The statement added that police seperately arrested two men with electrical circuit boards that could be used in bombs.
A ministry official declined to say whether the suspects were Islamist militants, but did say they were planning attacks in the country.
Police said last week a suspected militant was killed in an explosion in a Cairo apartment during a police raid, and several militants were later arrested.
State-run media published contradictory accounts on the man’s identity, with some reporting that he was an Al-Qaeda linked Libyan and another saying he was Tunisian.
The interior ministry issued a statement critisising the conflicting accounts, but has not disclosed the man’s identity.
