A highway explosion in northern Egypt killed one person and injured three on Tuesday, following reports that two bombs had been found and defused at Cairo Airport.
Security officials said the roadside blast occurred on the highway between Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh, with state-run news site Ahram Online saying that the explosion targeted a security convoy.
Explosives experts overnight carried out controlled explosions on two bombs found at Cairo Airport, officials said.
A police patrol found the first device outside an arrival hall at the airport’s Terminal 1, which led officials to search the airport for other devices.
The second bomb, found next to a police car, was programmed to be activated by a cellphone call, but the use of a jamming device while security forces were dealing with the first bomb had prevented it being triggered, the officials added.
Another bomb exploded in a shopping street in downtown Cairo, damaging some storefronts but causing no injuries.
Egypt has seen a wave of bomb attacks targeting security forces, mainly in Cairo, since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.
A number of sound bombs and mostly ineffective devices have also targeted civilians in places like the city’s metro system.
Many of the attacks on security forces have been claimed by jihadist groups including the so-called Sinai Province of Islamic State and Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt).
Sinai Province, formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, is the main jihadist militant group in the deadly insurgency in the Sinai peninsula bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip.
The group claimed responsibility last week for a coordinated attack on security buildings and checkpoints in North Sinai capital al-Arish and nearby areas that killed some 40 security force members and civilians.
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