Cairo Blast Rips Into Islamic Art Museum, Damaging Key Global Collection
Car bomb destroys building's facade and damages artifacts, say early reports.
Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art—home to almost 100,000 priceless artifacts that comprise one of the world's most important collections of its kind—was extensively damaged when a car bomb exploded early Friday morning outside police headquarters across the street.
The blast was the first of four that rocked the Egyptian capital today, reportedly killing at least six people and injuring more than 90.
As the first bomb blew a crater into Port Said Street, it ripped into the facade of the two-story museum, which is more than 100 years old. Intricate designs in the Islamic style were pulverized.
Immediately after the blast, messages on social media indicated that the damage to the collection was likely to be devastating.
But in a phone interview Friday
