With the resurgence of terrorism in the streets, the phenomenon of bombs has been following Egyptians around recently. Rarely does a day go by without news reports about one or more bombs found planted in public places jammed with citizens and employees. Below bridges, in public squares, libraries or governmental hospitals, bombs are planted everywhere and it goes from threats to the actual blowing up of ministry buildings.

What is shocking and amusing at the same time is that most bombs that have been discovered are partially manufactured hand grenades. Thus, many questions are raised regarding the purpose behind planting them in such vital places, so long as the aim is not destruction and harming people.

The train station in Alexandria was a stage for one of these repeated threats to bomb public facilities. On Sept. 2, the explosives unit of the civil protection department managed to defuse a bomb that was found inside a bag left on a sidewalk in the train station. After citizens reported to the police the presence of a suspicious bag at the station, and following the police examination of the case, it turned out that it contained a partially assembled bomb and some documents. 

This was not the first incident of its kind. In fact, a few days earlier, on Aug. 31, a similar event took place in the heart of Cairo, where security forces in Giza found a cardboard box under the Sarwat Bridge containing 15 crudely made bombs. In this regard, the investigations of the department affiliated with Boulaq al-Dakrour police station reported that the security services of the department found the box while searching the surrounding region following gunshots fired at the station. They said that the militants had set it up to use in their attack on the department on Aug. 30, and then left it when the security forces pursued them.