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Strong blasts rock Cairo

5 killed; Egypt on high alert

AFP, Cairo
A massive suicide bomb struck Cairo police headquarters yesterday, the first of three blasts in the Egyptian capital that killed five people and wounded scores ahead of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.
The attacks came a day before police were to deploy across Cairo as Islamist supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and backers of the military that ousted him prepared rallies to mark the revolt that drove dictator Hosni Mubarak from power.
In the first attack, an assailant rammed a bomb-laden car into a metal fence surrounding the Cairo security directorate at around 6:15am, killing four people and wounding more than 70, police officials and the health ministry said.
The blast, which devastated the facade of the building, left a large crater in the ground and sent a plume of smoke billowing above the city, an AFP correspondent reported.
Interior ministry spokesman Hany Abdel Latif said "the vehicle tried to get close to the building but was stopped at the gate. Casualties were relatively small given the size of the blast."
Friday is the Muslim day of prayer and rest and so relatively few people were on the streets. The bombing also damaged the nearby Museum of Islamic Art, bringing down ceilings and damaging exhibits, culture minister Mohamed Ibrahim told AFP.
State television said investigators had found the remains of the suspected suicide bomber.
Hours later, a small makeshift bomb exploded near a police vehicle close to a metro station, killing a police conscript, security officials said.
That was followed by a bomb outside a police station on a road leading to the Giza pyramids that caused no casualties, the interior ministry said.
"They don't want the people to celebrate," the January 25 anniversary, the interior minister, who is also named Mohamed Ibrahim, said of the assailants.
The president's office vowed to "avenge our martyrs."
"Whoever planned, participated, financed, or incited (the attack) will be punished with theworst form of punishment," itsaid.
Later yesterday, at least one person was killed when Islamist protesters clashed with their civilian opponents and police in several cities, security officials said.
The Islamists, who object to the military's overthrow of Morsi in July, condemned the security headquarter's bombing but said they would go ahead with "peaceful" protests.
A witness who lives in an apartment about
200 metres (yards) away from the police building said he had been awakened by the explosion.
" My building shook," Yahya Attiya said.
Riot police pushed back hundreds of onlookers, some of whom chanted slogans against the Muslim Brotherhood.
Militants have escalated attacks since the military overthrew Morsi after only a year of turbulent rule.
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood has denied involvement in those attacks, but was blacklisted as a terrorist group after 15 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle at a police headquarters north of Cairo in December.
An al-Qaeda inspired group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, claimed responsibility for that attack, but many blame the Brotherhood,
"I can now call the Muslim Brotherhood the terrorist Brotherhood," said Attiya, as he surveyed the wreckage outside the police headquarters.
Scores of soldiers and police have been killed in the restive Sinai Peninsula and militants in the desert region have begun to expand their operations to densely populated areas of the rest of the country.
There have also been several bombings in Cairo, including a failed assassination attempt against the interior minister in September, weeks after policemen killed hundreds of Islamist demonstrators in clashes at a protest camp.