Two police officers and a civilian were injured Monday morning after a bomb went off nearby a court complex in Cairo’s eastern district of Heliopolis, Youm7 reported.
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“A police officer and a conscript were killed, while three others were injured”, the ministry statement read.
The interior ministry said the wounded included a police colonel and a major, but did not specify if they were the ones seriously wounded.
The Cairo-based militants say their attacks are in retaliation for the fierce government crackdown on supporters of Morsi.
Egypt’s top public prosecutor was killed by a vehicle bomb attack on his convoy in late June, the most senior state official to die at the hands of militants in two years.
This file photo shows a member of the Egyptian security forces standing guard in Sinai near a van damaged in a roadside bomb blast by militants.
North Sinai is a bastion of the Egyptian affiliate of the jihadist Islamic State group which is spearheading an insurgency that has swelled since the army’s ouster of president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
It was claimed by Ajnad Misr, a militant group that emerged in January 2014 and has targeted security forces in and around Cairo.
Most attacks have been in the Sinai Peninsula, but deadly bombings have also been staged in Cairo and some other Egyptian cities.
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Ansar Beit al-Maqdis is now known as “The Sinai Province” after it pledged allegiance to the IS in November.
