EGYPT WIDENS CRACKDOWN AS BOMB WOUNDS 5 PERONS

PHOTO: Egyptian security officials inspect the wreckage of a bus that was damaged by an explosion on December 26, 2013 in Cairo. 

AFP – A bomb exploded near a bus in Cairo Thursday injuring five people, a day after the government widened a crackdown on Islamists by declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group.

The windows of the red and black public transport bus were shattered in the explosion at a busy intersection in the north Cairo neighbourhood of Nasr City.

Police defused a second bomb and cordoned off the area as sniffer dogs searched for more explosive devices, an AFP correspondent said.