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Three police were wounded on Monday when a bomb exploded under a traffic sentry post near a Cairo court house, security sources said, in the latest in a series of attacks to hit the Egyptian capital. The explosion occurred in the affluent north-eastern Heliopolis district, they said.
Egyptian authorities have pledged to end a wave of Islamist militant violence that has swept across the country, but sporadic attacks on high-profile locations in the city and elsewhere have continued. No one claimed immediate responsibility for Monday’s bomb, in which a health ministry spokesman confirmed three people were wounded.
A two-year-old insurgency centred on the Sinai Peninsula has killed hundreds of soldiers and police since the army ousted president Mohammed Morsi after mass protests against his rule in 2013.
Despite the Egyptian authorities’ pledge to end the militant violence spreading through Egypt, especially in Cairo and North Sinai, often referred to IS and its affiliate groups, bombings have nonetheless continued to be recurrent.
