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DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. August 20, 2015, 5:22 AM (IDT)
An explosion went off close to a security building in Cairo early on Thursday morning, resulting in injuries.
A car bomb exploded near a national security agency building in Shubra Al-Khaima, a neighbourhood on the northern edge of the Egyptian capital,
Egypt’s interior ministry confirmed in a statement that a car had exploded outside the security compound. The assailant fled the scene on a motorcycle, it said.
Six members of the police had been taken to a hospital
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