CAIRO
One of two policemen who was killed in an explosion in Cairo earlier Sunday was a prosecution witness in the trial of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and dozens others charged with breaking out of jail in 2011, a judicial source said.
Mohamed Abu Sarie was killed along with another policeman in an explosion that took place meters away from the Foreign Ministry headquarters in downtown Cairo.
According to the state television, the bombing hit a checkpoint near the ministry's building, which is also adjacent to the state television's headquarters, leaving two policemen dead and five people wounded.
According to the judicial source, Abu Sarie delivered his testimony in the trial on June 28.
Morsi, along with 130 co-defendants, is accused of taking part in a mass jailbreak during Egypt's January 2011 uprising that led to Mubarak's ouster.
Only 26 defendants, including Morsi, are in custody, while another ten are being tried in absentia.
Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, was ousted by the military last summer – after only one year in office – following protests against his presidency.
He currently faces five separate trials for multiple criminal charges, including espionage, jailbreak and "offending the judiciary."
Morsi, like his co-defendants, insists that the charges against him are politically driven.
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