{"id":29063,"date":"2016-10-01T05:05:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T05:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-militant-group-claims-prosecutor-bombing\/"},"modified":"2016-10-01T05:05:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T05:05:11","slug":"egypt-militant-group-claims-prosecutor-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-militant-group-claims-prosecutor-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt militant group claims prosecutor bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{CAIRO (AFP) &#8211; An Egyptian militant group said on Friday that it tried to assassinate the deputy prosecutor general with a car bomb, a day after the blast in a Cairo suburb.}<\/p>\n<p>Police had said the Thursday night bombing had occurred as the official&#8217;s convoy drove past the rigged car wounded a passerby. The prosecutor, Zakareya Azmi, was unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>The Hasm group, which has claimed attacks in Cairo in recent months, said it was was behind the bombing in a statement circulated on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The recently emerged group published purported pictures of the moment the bomb exploded, and threatened further attacks against &#8220;the oppresive judiciary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The group, about which little is known, had previously claimed responsibility for killing a policeman and for the attempted assassination of a pro-government Muslim cleric.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, a car bombing killed prosecutor general Hisham Barakat. No group has claimed responsibility for that attack.<\/p>\n<p>Police later said they arrested the perpetrators of the attack, charging that they were members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of soldiers and policemen have also died in jihadist attacks since the military overthrew Morsi in 2013 and unleashed a deadly crackdown on his supporters.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15414 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ce23a290686b8cac5998b28fba460e66bd18fd12.jpg\" alt=\"Egyptian policemen inspect the wreckage of a car bomb that exploded in a Cairo suburb after Egypt&#039;s deputy prosecutor general drove by wounding a passerby\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{CAIRO (AFP) &#8211; An Egyptian militant group said on Friday that it tried to assassinate the deputy prosecutor general with a car bomb, a day after the blast in a Cairo suburb.} Police had said the Thursday night bombing had occurred as the official&#8217;s convoy drove past the rigged car wounded a passerby. The prosecutor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[244],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-france-24"],"bylines":[{"id":244,"name":"France 24","slug":"france-24","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":96}],"contributors":[{"id":244,"name":"France 24","slug":"france-24","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":96}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29063"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}