Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy offered condolences to the people and government of Russia after two bombings ripped through Volgograd City on Sunday and Monday.
In a press release, the ministry's spokesperson, Badr abdel Aaty, said that Fahmy “deeply denounced the two terrorist actions” and added that “Egypt is waging a war against terrorism and fully realizes the consequences of these crimes on development and stability.”
Fahmy also said that it is important “to unify international efforts to confront this phenomenon, since it threatens international security and stability.”
A bomb blast ripped a trolleybus apart in Volgograd on Monday, killing at least 16 people in the second deadly attack in the southern city in two days and raising fears of further violence as Russia prepares to host the Winter Olympics.
It came less than 24 hours after a suicide bomb blast killed at least 17 people in the main railway station in the same city, a major transport hub in southern Russia.
Edited translation from DPA
