#state funeral
A military funeral will be held for Egypt's prosecutor general, who died in hospital after a bomb targeted his motorcade earlier on Monday. The funeral will be held on Tuesday at noon, state television reported. Shortly before he succumbed to his wounds, spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said Prosecutor General Hisham Barakat was undergoing a second surgical procedure because of "internal hemorrhage". Zakaria Abdel Aziz Othman, the assistant prosecutor general earlier told state radio that a car suddenly exploded near the…
