1st LD: Civilian killed, 3 policemen injured in bomb attack in Egypt's Kafr al-Sheikh district
Xinhua, December 10, 2016 Adjust font size:
An Egyptian civilian was killed and three policemen were injured Friday in an explosion that targeted a police car in the Delta governorate of Kafr al-Sheikh, state-run MENA news agency reported.
Security sources told MENA that a road-side bomb hit a police patrol travelling on the international road of the Kafr al-Sheikh.
Police forces rushed to the scene, cordoned the area and started a search operation of the assailants as well as other possible explosive devices.
Earlier in the day, six policemen were killed when explosive devices went off at a security checkpoint stationed on the road leading to the Pyramids in Cairo.
A minor Islamist military faction claimed responsibility for the Cairo attack.
In Egypt, bomb attacks are endemic in North Sinai Province, where Islamic State-affiliated Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group has carried out hundreds of anti-security attacks following the ouster of the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the army in response to mass protest against his rule in 2013.
However, some attacks crept to Cairo and other major cities across the most populous Arab country.
The terrorist attacks have claimed lives of hundreds of police and army personnel as well as a number of civilians. Endit