On 4 August 2019, a car drove into three other cars outside the

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in central

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, Egypt. The collisions caused an

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, killing at least 20 people and injuring at least 47 others. The next day,

Mahmoud Tawfik Mahmoud Tawfik ( ar, محمود توفيق; born 1961) is an Egyptian politician and police officer. He serves as the Egyptian Minister of Interior. Career Tawfik joined the Egyptian police and graduated from the Police Academy in 1982. Follow ...

the

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of Egypt, said that the car contained explosives and was to be used in a

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

operation. The explosives-filled car was on its way to commit an attack in another part of the capital. Tawfik accused the

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of carrying out the bombing, but the group denied the

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s.Explosives-packed car kills 20, injures dozens in Cairo collision
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