Egyptian security forces stand guard at the site of a bomb that targeted the convoy of the Egyptian state prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, in the capital Cairo on June 29, 2015. (AFP)
Cairo:
Egypt's state prosecutor Hisham Barakat had died in hospital hours after a bomb struck his convoy in Cairo earlier today, two government ministers told AFP.
"He has passed away," Justice Minister Ahmed al-Zind told an AFP journalist at the hospital where Barakat had been taken. Another minister confirmed that Barakat was dead.