{{An Egyptian police officer was killed and three others wounded in a small explosion near the presidential palace in Cairo’s Heliopolis district on Monday, security sources said.}}<\/p>\n
State newspaper Al-Ahram reported that security forces were defusing one makeshift bomb found at a street intersection near the presidential palace when a second device exploded.<\/p>\n
The blast came days after the militant group Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, said it had planted a series of bombs in the same area to target security forces. <\/p>\n
It aborted the mission due to concerns that civilians would be hurt but was unable to remove the bombs and released a statement urging caution. <\/p>\n
The group formally announced itself in January saying it would target the government after the army ousted elected President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood last year. <\/p>\n
Eight people were hurt in a series of explosions last week on Cairo’s metro, the first attacks in the capital since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became president this month.<\/p>\n
Islamist militants have targeted police and soldiers with bomb attacks and shootings since Mursi’s ousting. Thousands of Brotherhood supporters are in jail, and hundreds more have been killed.<\/p>\n
The Brotherhood denies any link to the violence. <\/p>\n
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