An Egyptian policeman has been killed in a bomb blast next to a checkpoint on a bridge in Cairo. The explosion, in the upmarket Zamalek district, injured several more people on the May 15 bridge.
A militant Islamist group named Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) said that it had carried out the attack.
Hours after Sunday's bombing, Egyptian officials said that security forces had killed the group's leader, Hamam Mohamed Attia.
According
to the interior ministry and security sources, he was shot dead during
an exchange of fire at an apartment in Giza, near Cairo. His group has been targeting police officers and soldiers in attacks around the city.
Violence by Islamist militant groups has increased since the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
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