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17 dead in car explosion in central Cairo

17 dead in car explosion in central Cairo
August 5, 2019
CAIRO (Reuters) - Seventeen people have died and 32 have been injured in an explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute in central Cairo, Egypt’s health ministry said early on Monday. A car driving against traffic on Cairo’s corniche collided with three other cars, causing the explosion, Egypt’s interior ministry said in a statement. Egypt’s public prosecutor is investigating the cause of the incident, sources told Reuters, but there was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbHqf_AT7fg