One dead in Gaza bomb blast

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

GAZA CITY (AFP) — One person was killed and four others were wounded early on Friday when a bomb exploded outside a Gaza City cafe that had already been targeted two months ago, emergency services and police said.

The blast, shortly after midnight, caused extensive damage to the cafe.

There was no indication why it was targeted. However, Islamic extremists have waged a campaign against Internet cafes, shops that sell music deemed unsuitable and Christian institutions in the overwhelmingly Muslim Gaza Strip.

"There are indications" Friday's attack was carried out by these extremists, but "nothing has been confirmed," police spokesman Islam Shahwan told AFP.

Separately, Shahwan said a bomb had exploded near the home of Marwan Abu Ras, the Hamas...