Panic spreads in Egypt city after spate of knife attacks

Egypt’s coastal city of Suez is in the grip of panic after an unidentified assailant injured six women in separate knife attacks, local media has reported.

Police have tightened security across the city, about 110km east of Cairo, setting up checkpoints and mobile patrols in hopes of nabbing the suspect.

Suez Governor Abdul Majid Saqr met the city’s senior security officials on Tuesday and discussed plans to arrest the suspect.

The victims said that the purported stabber was on a motorcycle when he attacked his victims.

All the victims concurred that the assailant had stolen nothing from them.

Security officials downplayed the attacks as isolated incidents aimed at spreading public panic.

“We are conducting full investigations and checking surveillance cameras in the streets where the attacks took place,” an official said.

Security has also been tightened around the city’s university and girls’ schools, Al Masry Al Youm newspaper reported.