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The Latest: Egypt says Hamas, Brotherhood killed prosecutor

FILE -- In this June 11, 2015 file photo, Egypt's Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, center, visits the site of a suicide bombing near the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. In a televised appearance on state and private television, Sunday, March,6, 2016, Abdel-Ghaffar blamed the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic militant group Hamas for the killing last June, of Hisham Barakat, the country’s chief prosecutor who oversaw cases against thousands of Islamists. Abdel-Ghaffar said Hamas trained Brotherhood members in the Gaza Strip for the operation. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
FILE -- In this June 11, 2015 file photo, Egypt's Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, center, visits the site of a suicide bombing near the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. In a televised appearance on state and private television, Sunday, March,6, 2016, Abdel-Ghaffar blamed the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic militant group Hamas for the killing last June, of Hisham Barakat, the country’s chief prosecutor who oversaw cases against thousands of Islamists. Abdel-Ghaffar said Hamas trained Brotherhood members in the Gaza Strip for the operation. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File) FILE -- In this June 11, 2015 file photo, Egypt's Interior Minister Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar, center, visits the site of a suicide bombing near the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. In a televised appearance on state and private television, Sunday, March,6, 2016, Abdel-Ghaffar blamed the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic militant group Hamas for the killing last June, of Hisham Barakat, the country’s chief prosecutor who oversaw cases against thousands of Islamists. Abdel-Ghaffar said Hamas trained Brotherhood members in the Gaza Strip for the operation. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

By Associated Press 2 min read

CAIRO (AP) – The Latest on Egypt blaming the 2015 assassination of the chief prosecutor on the Muslim brotherhood and the Palestinian militant group Hamas (all times local):

5 p.m.

Egypt’s interior minister says the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian militant group Hamas were behind the assassination of the country’s chief prosecutor in a 2015 bombing.

Magdy Abdel-Ghaffar said in a televised address Sunday that Hamas trained Brotherhood members in the Gaza Strip for the operation, which killed 65-year-old Hisham Barakat last June.

Abdel-Ghaffar says dozens of people have been arrested in the case. He says “Hamas trained, prepared, and oversaw the implementation,” of the assassination, the first of a senior Egyptian official in 25 years.