EXPLOSION OCCURRED ON SECOND DAY ELECTION  IN EGYPT

Bomb blast reported at Egypt polling station

Bomb blast reported at Egypt polling stationCairo, 29 Rajab 1435/28 Mei, 2014 (MINA) – An explosion occurred  (28/5) at Misr Jadidah, precisely in the Sharia ‘Hamam (about 25 kilos of Nasr city, Cairo), coincided with the second day election in order to choose the President of Egypt, but no casualties were reported.

Egypt Interior Minister, Mohammed Ibrahim, said that the military has been relegated to investigated this incident, MINA correspondent in Cairo reported.

After the incident occurred, Ibrahim said it will ensure that all polling stations will be stringent maintained to prevent further explosions. Not only that, the 2014 election was marked by unrest in some of the governorates of Egypt following anti-coup National Alliance calls for boycott elections they consider  illegitimate.

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Egypt was filled with regular protests and liberal Muslim activists since the overthrow of Egypt’s first democratic president, Mohammed Mursi on July 3, 2013. They protest regularly every Tuesday and Friday in the national action anti-coup, demand the release of Mursi with thousands of other activists of the Brotherhood Muslims are still detained  in Egyptian prisons.

Egyptians filled the interim government since Mursi overthrown. In the end, the government decided to hold a second election that will replace the Mursi in the presidency. Two candidates nominated, the former Defence Minister Abdul Fattah al-Sisi who announced the overthrow of the Mursi and their left-wing candidate of Hamden Sabbahi.

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On the first day election, the train carrying hundreds of passengers in Syarqiyah attacked a group of unidentified men. The incident made ​​a number of trains that aims to some province stopped for security reasons. No one are responsible for this attack.

On the first day too, the riots  also took place between security forced with pro-Mursi demonstrators in Cairo. At least 12 demosntran arrested in the incident. Riots also occurred in Hadayek Quba, Cairo, where the candidate Hamden Sabbahi supporters clashed with security forces and burned police cars.

According to one of the protesters who declined to be named, riots Sabbahi supporters and security forces occurred because they consider unfair electoral system. Previously announced Al-Sisi out as the absolute winner in elections abroad. He won 95% of the vote and 5% other Hamden Sabbahi. (T/Nidiya/P03)

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Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)

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