Britain condemns assassination of Egyptian Prosecutor Barakat

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Tuesday 30 Jun 2015 - 12:57 Makkah mean time-13-9-1436 British Minister for North Africa Tobias Ellwood London, (IINA) - British Minister for North Africa Tobias Ellwood condemned the attack in Cairo that has killed the Egyptian Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat and injured a number of others, British Foreign & Commonwealth Office reported. Commenting on the incident the British minister said: I wholly condemn the sickening attack that killed Egyptian Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat and injured a number of others in Cairo. I send my sincere condolences to the families of all the victims. The UK continues to stand with the Egyptian people in confronting the threat from terrorism and the extremist ideology that inspires it, Ellwood noted in his statement. SM/IINA