Three more held for Cairo blast
2005-04-14 22:36
Cairo - Three young Egyptians were arrested on Thursday over suspected involvement in last week's bomb blast in a central Cairo bazaar that killed four people, a judicial source said.
"Three young people were arrested today over the bombing," the sources said, without elaborating on what part the suspects might have played in the attack.
The three were detained south of Cairo, bringing to at least six the number of people currently held by the security services over the April 7 attack which killed two French citizens, a US national and the bomber.
An internet statement issued by a previously unknown group called the Islamic Brigades of Pride in Egypt, said it had carried out the attack.
The interior ministry announced on Sunday that it had captured three Islamists suspected of planning the attack, the first on foreign targets in the tourist-packed Egyptian capital in more than seven years.
The next day, the ministry identified the bomber as an 18-year-old engineering student from Zagazig, northeast of Cairo.