(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) A large explosion struck outside the Italian Consulate in Egypt's capital Cairo early Saturday, severely damaging the building and killing one civilian, and injuring four others, state news agency MENA said.
The explosion had caused massive destruction to the building. The force of the blast shook a building in downtown Cairo and could be heard in many neighborhoods, MENA cited witnesses as saying.
Preliminary investigations indicated that attackers had placed a bomb underneath a car near the consulate and remotely detonated it.
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