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Egypt makes 3 new arrests over Cairo bazaar blast
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-04-18 09:29 Egyptian authorities have arrested three more men
over their suspected roles in the deadly blast that rocked a central Cairo
bazaar, while a fourth suspect escaped, the interior ministry said.
The latest arrests brought to at least nine the number of people held by the
security services over the April 7 attack which killed two French citizens, a US
national and the bomber.
In this composite photo distributed by the
Egyptian Interior Ministry Sunday, April 17, 2005, are seen, from right to
left, Tarek Ahmed Al-Sayed, Akram Mohammed Fawzi, Reda Sayed Ahmed, and
Ashraf Saied Youssef. Egypt's Interior Ministry identified the four men
who are accused of training a bomber who killed himself, an American and
two French tourists in Cairo on April
7.[AP] | "The security services have uncovered links between the perpetrator of the
blast and a group of four people who took part in training and recruiting the
culprit and in manufacturing the device," the interior ministry said.
Akram Fawzi, 35, Reda Ahmed, 19, and Tareq Ali, 34, were nabbed over the past
few days in the Cairo district and north of the capital, in Qaliubia, it said in
a statement sent to AFP.
The suspected accomplice on the run was named as Ashraf Said Yussef.
Fawzi was described as "the brain who masterminded and financed the attacks
and provided his accomplices with compact discs (CDs) explaining how to
manufacture explosive devices".
Egyptian policemen secure the site of a bomb
blast at the Al-Moski bazaar in Cairo on April 8. Egyptian authorities
have arrested three more men over their suspected roles in the deadly
blast that rocked a central Cairo bazaar, while a fourth suspect escaped,
the interior ministry said.[AFP/File] | The
bomber, who was blown to pieces when the device he was carrying went off, was
identified last week as an 18-year-old Islamist, following DNA tests by police.
The ministry named him as Hassan Raafat Ahmed Bashandi, an engineering
student from Zagazig, northeast of Cairo. Yussef had led Bashandi to believe the
device would explode with a five-minute time delay, it said.
The attack, which occurred in an alleyway of ancient Islamic Cairo near the
famed Khan el-Khalili souk popular with tourists, was the first on foreign
targets in Egyptian capital in more than seven years.
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