The Egyptian prime minister has formally designated the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist organisation”. <br /><br />Hazem el-Beblawi accused the group of a suicide bomb attack that ripped through a police station in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura on Tuesday.<br /><br />The now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood condemned the attack and denies any links to violence or to Sinai-based extremist groups.<br /><br />An Islamist militant group based in Sinai, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, said it carried out the blast which killed 16 and wounded about 140.<br /><br />Militant attacks intensified amid a clampdown by security forces after President Mohamed Mursi, who belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood, was deposed in July.<br /><br />All of the group’s activities are now banned, including public demonstrations.<br /><br />Meanwhile former Egyptian PM Hisham Qandil has been transferred to a prison in the south of Cairo following his arrest yesterday. Qandil will serve a year in prison for failing to execute a court verdict.
