CAIRO, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- Egypt strongly condemned the terrorist attack at a police bus in Bahrain's Manama, which killed a policeman and injured eight others, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
"The Egyptian government and people stand in solidarity with the Bahraini people against brutal terrorism," said the statement.
Egypt also stressed the necessity to trace the sources supporting, financing, training and sheltering such misguided groups that target security and stability in the Middle East region and the whole world.
Bahrain is one of Egypt's allies in the oil-rich Gulf region, where Egypt joined last June a bloc including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to impose a blockade on Qatar, which they accuse of supporting terrorism and interfering in their domestic affairs, charges that Qatar has repeatedly denied.
Led by Saudi Arabia, Gulf Cooperation Council states including Bahrain and excluding Qatar supported Egypt with billions of dollars to boost the country's economic situation after the Egyptian military ousted former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and his now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Since then, Egypt has been suffering terrorism at home that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers as well as dozens of the Coptic minority, with a Sinai-based group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) terrorist group claiming responsibility for most of them.
