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Bomb diffused in train station in Upper Egypt's Beni Suef

MENA, Saturday 21 Mar 2015

Cairo-Aswan trains stopped for over an hour Saturday after a bomb was found in a Beni Suef train station

Trains connecting Cairo and Aswan stopped for over an hour Saturday after a suspicious object was found on the railtracks of a station in Beni Suef, the Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported.

Explosive experts were called to the scene and a bomb was found and diffused, railway authorities stated. 

Egypt has been suffering a wave of small scale bombings over the past year. Train stations have been a common target.

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