Two bombs exploded at a small telephone exchange on Cairo’s outskirts on Saturday, killing an 18-year-old woman and her mother, security sources said, days after a string of small bomb explosions hit the Egyptian capital’s metro network.<\/p>\n
The two bombs had been stored the exchange building which was still under construction, security sources and a judicial source said, adding they assumed the devices had been intended for use elsewhere.<\/p>\n
The unfinished concrete building partially collapsed in the blast. The two women killed were the wife and daughter of a construction site guard, who lived in an annex to the building in 6th of October City, an eastern satellite district of Cairo.<\/p>\n
An official at the site told reporters telephone services would return within two days to around 800 people whose lines were affected.<\/p>\n
The Interior Ministry said in a statement on Facebook that security forces and bomb experts were inspecting the site.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, eight people were hurt in northern Cairo when homemade explosive devices blew up at four metro stations and a courthouse in the first attacks in Cairo since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president earlier this month.<\/p>\n
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