Cairo blasts kill 6 on eve of revolt anniversary

A suicide car bomber struck Cairo police headquarters, in the first of four blasts in Egypt’s capital that killed six people on the eve of the anniversary of the 2011 uprising.

The bombings, all targeting the police, came as street clashes between Islamist supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi and backers of the military killed seven people, ahead of today’s planned rallies to mark the revolt that drove Hosni Mubarak from power.

In the first attack, an assailant rammed a bomb-laden car into a metal fence surrounding the Cairo security directorate at about 6:15am, killing four people and wounding more than 70, police officials and the health ministry said.