Explosion rocks Beni Suef, 2 other bombs discovered nearby

On Tuesday morning, a bomb detonated in Beni Suef. Two other homemade bombs were discovered in the area and were defused before they could go off.

According to a report by the state owned Al-Ahram, the bombs were targeting the city council and police station in Beni Suef.

Those responsible for the attack remain unknown and there are currently no reports on whether or not there are any casualties as a result of the explosion.

The bomb went off near the city council building, which is near to the local police station and the post office. The bombs were made out of stove parts and were discovered after the first one detonated in the early hours of the morning.

This explosion is one of many similar attacks to have taken place in the past few weeks, with at least eight bombings having been reported since October. With the exception of the attack on the Armed Forces in North Sinai on October 24 that left 31 soldiers dead, the attacks have been mostly small-scale, using homemade bombs and targeting public spaces.

Again, with the exception of the attack in North Sinai, the majority of the injured from these types of attacks have been civilians, although a few security personnel have also suffered injuries.

On November 6, a young woman was injured when a homemade bomb detonated under a pedestrian bridge near Qubba Presidential Palace in Heliopolis.  

A few days earlier, on November 1, three people were injured after a homemade bomb went off near Downtown Cairo under the Ghamra Bridge. On the same day, a number of Egyptian media outlets reported the existence of many other homemade bombs across the country.

On October 31, a bombing in Arish targeted a military tank and injured seven soldiers.  

Just one week before, on October 24, a security crackdown in North Sinai began after an attack that left 31 soldiers dead. In response to the bombing, the government decided to create a buffer zone between North Sinai and the Gaza strip and has forced an estimated 1,156 families to leave there homes in order to create it.

On October 22 there was an explosion outside Cairo University that injured 11, including members of the police force and civilians. The Sinai-based militant group Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) later claimed responsibility for the attack via a statement released on Twitter.

Also in Cairo, on the evening of October 14, a car bomb exploded in downtown in front of the Supreme Court building and injured 14 people.

That same day unknown assailants bombed a gas station in Arish, in North Sinai. The station is along the route that carries exported gas to Jordan. The October attack was the 25th time the gas line has been attacked since 2011. Later that evening, there was yet another bombing in Arish, near the airport and close to a security checkpoint.