Egypt's president Abdel Fattah Al Sisi will meet Thursday interior minister Magdy Abdel Ghaffar and his aides in Cairo to discuss the latest security developments, sources told Al Bawaba News. The meeting will also tackle the Egyptian political scene and the plans adopted by security apparatus to combat terrorist groups and ideologies, the sources added. The meeting comes amid a string of deadly blasts nationwide claiming hundreds of lives among security personnel and civilians, particularly in the restive Sinai Peninsula. A car bombing in the northern province of Kafr Elsheikh April 15 killed two cadets and seriously injured six others. Egypt has been under severe terrorist attacks in the wake of ousting former president Mohamed Morsi July 2013 amid mass street protests. In a statement issued earlier on Thursday, interior ministry announced 72 Muslim Brotherhood middle-ranking affiliates were detained in 12 governorates across the country, a move the statement hailed as a pre-empt blow for the terrorist group.
