On Friday evening, as the troops approached the house – a one-storey building on a narrow lane opposite an open drain – three explosions went off and they opened fire on the suspects holed up inside, according to the military. The wife and a daughter of the suspected mastermind of the suicide attacks, Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran, were wounded in the ensuing gunbattle, police and his sister said on Saturday. Security forces have detained 100 people, including foreigners from Syria and Egypt.
