CAIRO — Egypt's public prosecutor suffered unspecified injuries when a car bomber rammed into his convoy as it was leaving his home in Cairo on Monday, security and judicial sources said. A little-known group calling itself the “Giza Popular Resistance” claimed responsibility on its Facebook page for the attack on Hisham Barakat in front of his home in the upscale Cairo neighbourhood of Heliopolis. Security and judicial sources said the car bomber drove into Barakat's motorcade as it was leaving his home. Two policemen and two civilians were also wounded, they said. The state news agency MENA said Barakat sustained “light injuries” from a bomb blast in the residential district of Heliopolis. Pictures of the blast showed a large plume of black smoke rising in front of apartment buildings and several cars were on fire. — Reuters
