• Militant attack: A funeral procession is held after a car bomb tore through a police headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 km north of Cairo, killing 11 policemen and four civilians Tuesday. It was the deadliest bombing yet in a monthslong wave of violence in Egypt blamed on Islamic militants. | AP
    Militant attack: A funeral procession is held after a car bomb tore through a police headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 km north of Cairo, killing 11 policemen and four civilians Tuesday. It was the deadliest bombing yet in a monthslong wave of violence in Egypt blamed on Islamic militants. | AP

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MANSOURA, EGYPT – A car packed with explosives detonated outside a security headquarters building in this city north of Cairo early Tuesday, killing 15 people and wounding more than 130 in one of the deadliest militant attacks in Egypt in years.

The powerful blast, which occurred just after 1 a.m. in a cramped quarter of Mansoura, was probably the work of a suicide bomber, Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement late Tuesday.

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