Six Egyptian policemen were killed, including two officers, when an improvised explosive device exploded in the capital city of Cairo on Friday, local media reported.
According to the Al Mayadeen television channel, the device was likely to have been planted in a garbage bin near a police post.
The attack occurred in the western Talibiya neighbourhood of the capital, shortly before Muslim Friday prayers and when Cairo’s streets are mostly empty, state television reported.
The bloodied bodies of several policemen could be seen at the blast site next to police vehicles that had been stationed there, an AFP photographer reported.
Police cordoned off the area with yellow tape as they searched for more explosives.
Friday’s bombing came days after the interior ministry said police killed three members of the Hassam Movement in the country’s south, and weeks after it announced breaking up one of the group’s cells.
Source: Agencies
