CAIRO: Egypt’s interior minister said on Saturday (Sunday in Manila) that police arrested three members of an al-Qaeda-linked cell in an alleged transnational plot to bomb a Western embassy and other targets in the country.

The suspects were arrested with explosives intended to be used to bomb a Western embassy after an investigation showed threads in Pakistan, Iran and Algeria, Mohamed Ibrahim said at a news conference.

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