Egypt's attorney general survives assassination attempt in Cairo

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Monday 29 Jun 2015 - 16:26 Makkah mean time-12-9-1436 Egypt's Attorney General Hisham Barakat Cairo (IINA) – Egypt's Attorney General Hisham Barakat survived an assassination attempt on Monday, which resulted in the injury of himself and two of his security guards and a civilian, an official security source said. The source added that a car bomb exploded close to the attorney general's convoy while it was driving along Ammar Ibn Yasser St. Heliopolis, Cairo. The attack sustained minor injuries to the attorney general and three of his team members. All were rushed to the hospital. AB/IINA