Egypt: Device Planted in Cairo Synagogue, One Arrest

From ANSAmed:

The alleged author of last Sunday's attack in a synagogue located in the centre of Cairo has been arrested. The report was made by Egypt's public television network Nile News. On Sunday a Molotov cocktail was launched against the door of the Shàar Hashamayin Jewish temple without generating any damage or casualties. The device, hidden in a backpack, was thrown from a hotel facing the synagogue, the largest in Egypt. A statement of the ministry of the Interior disseminated by Mena agency reported that the man is a 49-year-old tailor residing in the city's working-class neighbourhood. He was arrested early this morning in Garden City, where the US embassy is located and where the man tried to ask for political asylum. The statement reported that the man was identified thanks to some personal belongings that were found in the room the attacker had booked on the fourth floor of the Panorama hotel. The man had thrown the backpack from one of the hotel's reception windows before making an escape. The homemade device consisted of four containers containing sulphuric acid, cotton, matches and lighters.