KABUL: (Middle East Press) Two people were killed and nine others wounded, including policemen following a bomb blast in one of the busiest roads in Cairo’s business district, said the health ministry.
According to the ministry, the incident took place on Monday outside the Egyptian High Court.
The bomb was hidden under a car parked near the country’s highest criminal court in Cairo’s Ramses neighbourhood.
The area is very crowded, with dozens of street vendors selling their ware on stalls set up on the asphalt. Nearby are several bus stops, a railway station and a metro station.
Egyptian private The Seventh Day TV broadcast footage of the site, showing hundreds of onlookers around cars with smashed windows and blood on the pavement.
A group calling itself Revolutionary Punishment claimed responsibility on its Twitter account for the attack, saying they targeted a police checkpoint.
The group is believed to mostly consist of political activists seeking revenge for the ongoing crackdown on ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s supporters.
