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An explosion near a medical centre in Cairo has killed 20 people and injured 47 others.
The explosion occured after a car bomb collided with other vehicles, triggering an explosion outside a cancer hospital in central Cairo.
The blast occurred around midnight local time on a road running alongside the Nile River in an area outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute.
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Egypt’s interior ministry said a car carrying explosives drove into oncoming traffic and collided with three others, detonating its charge. It named Hasm, a violent offshoot of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group, as the organisation responsible for the attack, and said a member of the group had been arrested in connection with the blast.
A ministry spokesman initially said it had recorded 19 deaths as well as “a bag of body parts”. Cairo police said they were searching the Nile for additional victims who may have fallen in during the attack.
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The Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, issued a statement offering condolences to the victims, and condemning the attack. “The Egyptian state is determined to confront acts of terrorism and uproot them, with all its institutions,” he wrote.
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