Egypt prosecutor 'killed in attack'
Egypt's state prosecutor has died hours after a powerful bomb hit his convoy in Cairo yesterday, officials said, following jihadist calls for attacks on the judiciary to punish a crackdown on Islamists. "He has passed away," Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind told AFP at the hospital where Hisham Barakat had been taken following the morning bombing. He was the most senior government official killed since jihadists launched an insurgency following the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
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