BOMB KILLS TWO NEAR POLICE STATION IN SOUTHERN EGYPT

A state-run news agency said a bomb was planted in an electricity transformer outside of the station Sunday. (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled) — **A state-run news agency said a bomb was planted in an electricity transformer outside of the station Sunday.** (AFP/Mahmoud Khaled)

Aswan, Egypt, 12 Jumadil Awwal 1436/3 March 2015 (MINA) – An Egyptian security official says a bomb went off near a police station and mosque in the southern city of Aswan, killing two civilians and wounding a soldier and four others.

He said the crude bomb went off near an electrical transformer on a road that runs along the River Nile, severing the foot of the soldier, who was a conscript, ABC News quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Last week, a series of blasts went off in Cairo, killing one person and wounding at least seven others in another series of attacks using homemade explosives that authorities blame on armed fighter group.

The government is ramping up security ahead of a planned investment conference this month it hopes will draw billions of dollars from abroad.

The official spoke anonymously as he wasn’t authorized to release the information otherwise. (T/P001/P3)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)