{"id":5069,"date":"2015-06-29T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2015-06-29T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T15:54:34","slug":"car-bomb-attack-kills-egypts-top-public-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/car-bomb-attack-kills-egypts-top-public-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb attack kills Egypt\u2019s top public prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Egypt\"<\/a>Egypt\u2019s top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary.
\nJudges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical Islamists opposed to President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and angered by hefty prison sentences imposed on members of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
\nMonday\u2019s attack claimed the most senior state official since Sisi, a former army chief, ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule. Mursi was sentenced this month to death over a mass jailbreak in 2011.
\nState media, medical and judicial sources confirmed the death of chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat at a hospital in the residential district of Heliopolis where he had undergone surgery hours earlier.
\nHealth ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar had earlier said that Barakat suffered a dislocated shoulder and a deep cut and may have fractured his nose.
\nThere was no confirmed claim of responsibility for the attack, in which security sources said a bomb in a parked car was remotely detonated as Barakat\u2019s motorcade passed by. They initially said a car bomber had rammed into the convoy.
\nThe state news agency MENA said the bomb blast also wounded at least nine other people including police and civilians.<\/p>\n

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