“A bomb in a car parked on the side of the road exploded after deputy prosecutor general Zakareya Abdel Aziz drove past” in an upmarket district of eastern Cairo, it said in a statement.
Abdel Aziz was on his way from his office in Rehab to his home in New Cairo when a private car that was parked on the side of the road exploded.
Abdel Aziz and his entourage escaped unscathed, the ministry said.
Over a year ago, the previous prosecutor general was killed in a similar attack.
Judges and other senior officials have increasingly been targeted by radical Islamists opposed to Sisi and angered by hefty prison sentences imposed on members of the now-outlawed Muslim
Brotherhood, the country’s oldest Islamist movement which won Egypt’s first free elections after the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.
A senior security source quoted by the state MENA news agency said early investigations indicated about 20 kg worth of TNT was packed in the car and detonated remotely using a mobile phone.
Photographs from the scene showed the charred remains of a vehicle, with shards of glass and metal littering the ground.
Security forces were shortly dispatched to the scene, closing off the road and combing the area to arrest the assailants.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
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