Egypt tense on uprising anniversary
AFP
January 25, 2014 15:23 MYT
January 25, 2014 15:23 MYT
Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood chant slogans and raise four fingers, remembering those killed in the crackdown on a protest camp in Cairo last year, during a demonstration in Cairo on January 24, 2014. --AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD KHALED
An assailant threw a small bomb at a Cairo police building Saturday, police said, as rival demonstrators prepared to commemorate the 2011 uprising and a day after a spate of deadly bombings.
The small "incendiary bomb" lodged on the wall of the police training centre and exploded without causing any casualties, a police official said.
The assailants escaped, the official added.
It was the fifth attack in the capital in 24 hours, after four blasts, including a car bombing outside police headquarters, killed six people on Friday.
Meanwhile AlJazeera reported another bomb blast in the Hadeek al Qubba area as Egypt braces for mass demonstrations on the third anniversary of the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Police were preparing to deploy heavily across the capital to secure Saturday's commemorations of the anniversary of the January 25, 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule.
Islamist supporters of Mubarak's freely elected successor, Mohamed Morsi, ousted by the army in July, have called for rallies in the capital against the military-installed regime.
On Friday, at least 14 people were killed in clashes across Egypt between Islamist protesters and their opponents and police.