CAIRO - Egypt's state prosecutor has died of wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his convoy in a Cairo suburb on Monday, Egypt's official news agency reported.
The 65-year-old Hisham Barakat died in a Cairo hospital after undergoing a critical surgery, MENA said.
He is the top Egyptian official to be assassinated since the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi two years ago.
Hours earlier, a strong explosion had ripped through Barakat's convoy in the busy upscale eastern suburb of Heliopolis as he was driving to his office in the downtown.