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The Egyptian Interior Ministry altered its previous version of the explosion in central Cairo yesterday, claiming that the amount of explosives in a car was ready to carry out a terrorist operation that caused the explosion. An explosion at the institute of oncology and killed about twenty people, while President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi threatened to face "terrorism".
The ministry had previously confirmed that the explosion had been caused by a car traveling at high speed moving in the opposite direction of the road.
His latest statement, released Sunday night after Sisi called the terrorist incident, said that one of the cars involved in the collision in front of the oncology institute contained a quantity of 39. ; explosives.
The Interior Ministry has been quick to accuse the movement "Hasm", according to authorities, to belong to the Muslim Brotherhood, to be behind the preparation of the car for an attack terrorist, and said that the car was stolen several months ago.
For his part, the Egyptian president said that the explosion that occurred last night in Kasr al-Aini area in Cairo was an act of "cowardly terrorist".
On his Facebook and Twitter pages, Sisi expressed his condolences to the people "and to the families of the martyrs who died as a result of the cowardly terrorist incident" and declared that his country was determined to "fight and eliminate brutal terrorism".
According to the Ministry of Health, the death toll has been increased to twenty, including four unidentified, and 47 wounded.
In a fourth statement, Health announced that "the state of health of the wounded is generally rebaduring, with the exception of three serious cases of intensive care".
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In a statement, the ministry told Hala Zayed that she was "rebadured about the health of the wounded, ranging from cuts in different places to bruises, fractures and burns to varying degrees". She spoke of "Critical Intensive Care Cases".
The collision took place in front of the Institute of Oncology of Cairo University, in the central city of Manial.
The Interior Ministry said Sunday night in a statement that "if a motor vehicle (private) inadvertently exceeded direction on Corniche Nile Street, in front of the Department of Oncology Department of Police from Sayeda Zeinab, he collided with the number of three cars, which resulted in an explosion following the collision.
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