Egypt’s public prosecutor Hisram Barakat has died following a bomb attack on his car in Cairo, according to the state news agency.<br /><br /> Officials said the device was detonated remotely as a convoy of vehicles left his home this morning.<br /><br /> Two civilians and two policemen were wounded.<br /><br /> Who carried out the attack has not been confirmed. A little known group calling itself the “Giza Popular Resistance” claimed responsibility in an entry on Facebook but then retracted it. <br /><br /> Judges and other officials have increasingly been targeted by Islamist militants opposed to President al-Sisi and apparently angered by sentences imposed on members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.<br /><br /> Last month, Islamic State’s Egypt affiliate urged followers to attack judges, opening a new front in an Islamist insurgency in the world’s most populous Arab state. In the same month three judges were shot dead in the northern Sinai city of al-Arish.<br /><br /> As chief prosecutor, Barakat had overseen the detention of tens of th
