Police officer killed in blast near Egypt’s presidential palace – sources

Police officer killed in blast near Egypt’s presidential palace – sources
Mon Jun 30, 2014 9:19am GMT

CAIRO (ArabTelegraph) – An Egyptian police officer was killed and three others wounded in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo’s Heliopolis district on Monday, security sources said.

State newspaper Al-Ahram reported that security forces were defusing one makeshift bomb found at a street intersection near the presidential palace when a second device exploded.

The blast came days after the militant group Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, said it had planted a series of bombs in the same area to target security forces. It aborted the mission due to concerns that civilians would be hurt but was unable to remove the bombs and released a statement urging caution.
Eight people were hurt in a series of explosions last week on Cairo’s metro, the first attacks in the capital since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president this month.