Egypt’s top prosecutor killed

CAIRO: Egypt’s state prosecutor has died hours after a powerful bomb hit his convoy in Cairo on Monday, officials said, following Jihadist calls for attacks on the judiciary to punish a crackdown on Islamists.“He has passed away,” Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind told AFP at the hospital where Hisham Barakat had

By our correspondents
June 30, 2015
CAIRO: Egypt’s state prosecutor has died hours after a powerful bomb hit his convoy in Cairo on Monday, officials said, following Jihadist calls for attacks on the judiciary to punish a crackdown on Islamists.
“He has passed away,” Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind told AFP at the hospital where Hisham Barakat had been taken following the morning bombing.