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Egypt Interior ministry denies state TV report of bomb

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26-05-2014 | 04:00

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Egypt's Interior Ministry denied an earlier report on state TV of a homemade bomb exploding outside a polling station in the city of El-Mahalla El-Kubra on Monday, on the first day of voting in presidential elections.

In a post on the ministry's Facebook page, it wrote that the explosion-like sound had in fact been a car backfiring.

Egypt has faced a surge in violence after the army ousted the country's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi in July following mass protests against his rule and announced a roadmap that would see presidential and parliamentary elections this year.

Egyptians began voting on Monday in a two-day presidential election which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win, reviving rule by strongman three years after the downfall of Hosni Mubarak.

Polling stations opened at 9.00 a.m. (0600 GMT) across the country. Sisi, widely seen as Egypt's de facto leader since he deposed the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi last July, faces only one challenger: the leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi.

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