CAIRO: A senior Egyptian Interior Ministry official was shot dead outside his home in the capital Cairo on Tuesday, a foreign news agency citing a security official reported.
“General Mohamed Saeed, head of the technical office of the minister of interior, was targeted by gunmen inside a car who shot him and fled,” said the official.
Meanwhile, the interior ministry confirmed the killing of Mohamed Saeed, an aide to Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim.
On the other hand, the Syrian peace talks in Geneva between delegations representing the Bashar al-Assad-led government and foreign-backed opposition would resume on Tuesday.
In a statement on Monday, UN-Arab League Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi said that talks between the two sides did not produce much, adding that he would bring the two sides together again on Tuesday for another attempt at political discussions.
“Tomorrow we are going to put forward the Geneva communiqué… Then we are going to decide with them how we are going to proceed in discussing its many elements,” Brahimi said, referring to a text agreed by world powers in June 2012 that calls for the establishment of a transitional governing body in Syria.
“We are doing what the situation allows, what the market can bear,” Brahimi added.
On Monday, the Syrian peace talks between the Syrian government and the foreign-backed opposition hit a deadlock over divisive issue of transferring power to transitional government.
