Cairo car bomb kills 20 outside hospital

Bloomberg

Egypt’s government said extremists were behind a blast that killed at least 20 people in central Cairo, one of the deadliest acts of violence by extremists in the North African nation’s capital in years.
Extremists were transporting an explosives-laden vehicle for an attack when it detonated outside the National Cancer Institute, the Interior Ministry said. Forty-seven other people were wounded in the blast, which was initially said to be caused by a car accident.
Video footage of the aftermath showed patients lying on the street outside the partially evacuated hospital as a fire raged in the background and smoke billowed near the Nile River.
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi described the event as a “cowardly terrorist incident,” and said the Egyptian state was committed to “confront and uproot brutal terrorism.” The Interior Ministry identified the perpetrators as the Hasm movement, a group that’s carried out previous attacks and is linked to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
The carnage was a stark sign of the challenge still confronting Sisi’s government as it wages a years-long campaign against militant groups, including those affiliated with IS. While much of the violence has been in North Sinai, extremists have struck far beyond the peninsula, targeting local Christians as well as tourists.