Gunmen opened fire at former Egyptian mufti Ali Gomaa in a Cairo suburb on Friday, missing the pro-government cleric but wounding a bodyguard, the interior ministry said, according to AFP.

Gomaa was on his way to a mosque near his hime when the assailants hiding in a park started shooting, the ministry said.

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