Egyptian police have arrested a young man for opening fire on Sunday at the convoy of the country’s Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and his companions in Cairo

Egyptian police have arrested a young man for opening fire on Sunday at the convoy of the country’s Prime Minister Hisham Qandil and his companions in Cairo.

The authorities said the attack was not political in nature, Reuters reported. The police noted that the premier was not injured in the shooting.

Meanwhile Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the young men were on their way to settle a dispute when their car crossed paths with Qandil’s convoy in a residential and commercial district of Cairo.

One of the men fired two shots at a car belonging to Qandil’s companions when his security guards tried to force their vehicle away from the convoy.

The ministry said the police chased and caught the men, adding that the incident had no “political motives or other dimensions.”

According to a security official, the suspects claimed they had not known that the premier was inside the convoy.