Egypt’s Interior Minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar removed on Thursday Cairo's security chief, Maj. Gen. Ossama Bedeir.
Bedeir was replaced by his deputy, Khaled Abdelaal.
The announcement, which did not cite reasons for the reshuffle, coincided with an IED blast in the district of Roxy, east of Cairo, which wounded a police officer. It also comes days after an explosion that dealt a severe damage to the Italian consulate in Downtown Cairo.
Former general prosecutor Hisham Barakat was also assassinated late June in a booby-trapped car explosion, an incident which prompted the government to push with an unpopular anti-terrorism bill and urge faster justice against jailed leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood whom the government accuses of masterminding several deadly attacks across the country since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
