Toll in Cairo Bomb Blast Rises to 7
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CAIRO — The death toll from a terrorist bombing in a crowded suburban square rose to seven Saturday. Among those killed by the nail-packed bomb late Friday were a 13-year-old boy and an elderly woman. Eighteen people were reported wounded.
No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, the third to cause death and injury in Cairo in a month. Police have blamed the blasts on Muslim radicals.
Extremists stepped up their campaign against the government in early 1992, targeting police, Coptic Christians and foreign tourists. Almost 170 people have died.
Also Saturday, Sarwat Sayyid Mohammed, a Muslim militant suspected of murdering a British tourist last October, was shot dead by police in Assiut.
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