#WhereIsTheBomb warns Egyptians of violence-related traffic

February 12, 2015 admin expedia, larger-rival, media, media-conference, million-users, mohamed-mursi, says-it-sends, slipped-behind, soldiers-since, travel-services, while-priceline, world

By Shadi Bushra CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt's long-suffering drivers, worn down by decades of jams and crashes, are turning to social media to stave off a new, even more pressing threat — the traffic chaos caused by roadside bombs. “We really wish we didn't need to incorporate such a feature,” the app's co-creator Gamal ElDin Sadek told Reuters. “Eventually we categorized it under one hashtag to be better organized in warning people.” Egypt has been battling an Islamist militant insurgency that has killed hundreds of police and soldiers since then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted president Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013 after mass protests.

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#WhereIsTheBomb warns Egyptians of violence-related traffic