6 police officers killed in Cairo bomb blast

Civil defence and police forces were dispatched to the scene immediately.

Social networking sites published a photo First Lieutenant Ahmed Ezz, one of those who were killed in the bombing on 9th December 2016 [alarabiya.net]

The aftermath of the bomb blast in Egypt on 9th December 2016 [alarabiya.net]

Six police officers were killed this morning after a bomb exploded near a security services building in the Al-Haram area of Cairo, Egypt.

The police station in Giza received a report that a roadside bomb planted by unknown assailants near a security base near the Al-Salam Mosque.

Civil defence and police forces were dispatched to the scene immediately.

Roads leading to the area were closed following the attack.

Unless otherwise stated in the article above, this work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If the image(s) bear our credit, this license also applies to them. What does that mean? For other permissions, please contact us.