A bomb struck a a Cairo traffic police kiosk Friday killing one officer and wounding another, hours after suicide bombers killed a soldier in the Sinai, the interior ministry said.
The blast hit the north Cairo district of Heliopolis on the Muslim day of prayer and rest when traffic is at its lowest ebb, a ministry spokesman told AFP.
The first bomber hit a joint police-army checkpoint outside the South Sinai provincial capital Al-Tur. The second targeted a bus nearing the checkpoint, the officials said.
Security forces have deployed in strength to protect the resorts along the South Sinai coast that are a major plank of the country's battered tourism sector as militant attacks have soared since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last July.
Jihadists based in the Sinai have claimed most of the attacks on security forces that have multiplied since the army toppled Egypt's first freely elected president last year.
Most of the violence has been in the north of the desert peninsula, but this year the militants have extended their reach to Cairo and the Nile Delta, carrying out a series of high-profile attacks in the heart of the capital.
The Al-Qaeda inspired Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) group has said its attacks have been in revenge for a massive crackdown by the military-installed authorities that has left at least 1,400 people dead, according to Amnesty International.
The government says the militants have killed more than 500 people, most of them security personnel.
A bomb struck a a Cairo traffic police kiosk Friday killing one officer and wounding another, hours after suicide bombers killed a soldier in the Sinai, the interior ministry said.
The blast hit the north Cairo district of Heliopolis on the Muslim day of prayer and rest when traffic is at its lowest ebb, a ministry spokesman told AFP.
The first bomber hit a joint police-army checkpoint outside the South Sinai provincial capital Al-Tur. The second targeted a bus nearing the checkpoint, the officials said.
Security forces have deployed in strength to protect the resorts along the South Sinai coast that are a major plank of the country’s battered tourism sector as militant attacks have soared since the army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last July.
Jihadists based in the Sinai have claimed most of the attacks on security forces that have multiplied since the army toppled Egypt’s first freely elected president last year.
Most of the violence has been in the north of the desert peninsula, but this year the militants have extended their reach to Cairo and the Nile Delta, carrying out a series of high-profile attacks in the heart of the capital.
The Al-Qaeda inspired Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem) group has said its attacks have been in revenge for a massive crackdown by the military-installed authorities that has left at least 1,400 people dead, according to Amnesty International.
The government says the militants have killed more than 500 people, most of them security personnel.
