Cairo Bomb Blast Kills Policeman
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - An Egyptian police officer was killed when a bomb targeting a traffic police kiosk exploded in Cairo, security officials said.
The explosion rocked the busy Lebanon Square in Cairo's Mohandessin district on Friday, killing Mohammed Gamal Eddin, Egypt's interior ministry reported.
A security official told AP that the bomb was planted inside the traffic post and it exploded around 10pm (08:00 GMT).
A second official also said that unidentified assailants hurled the bomb from a bridge over the traffic post before fleeing.
Three other people were injured in the attack including a senior police officer, the two officials said.Security forces sealed off the area while searching for more bombs. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
Egypt has been hit with violence since the military overthrow of President Mohammed Mursi last year.
Official figures show that more than 500 people, mostly policemen and soldiers, had been killed in bombing and shooting assaults by rebels since the July ouster.
On Tuesday, two bomb blasts wounded six people including at least two policemen in Cairo and on April 2, a police general was killed when three bombs exploded in front of Cairo University.
More than 15,000 Islamists, mostly from Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, have been jailed, while hundreds have been sentenced to death after what are often speedy trials.
The authorities blame the Brotherhood for the attacks and have blacklisted it as a "terrorist organisation".
