CAIRO: Eleven people were wounded, one critically, in a bomb explosion outside the Egyptian supreme court in Cairo on Monday, officials said.
A police official and state media had said one man died but later retracted the information. Hospital officials said the blast blew away part of his skull and brain, and he was in a critical condition.
The explosion appeared aimed at a police checkpoint near the court, a hospital official said. The latest attack came a day after two civilians died in a bombing outside a police station in southern Egypt.
A worker in a nearby cafe in Cairo said he ran out into the street after hearing a loud explosion. “I found three people lying on the ground covered in blood.”
Police sealed off the area and swept it with bomb detector dogs as ambulances tried to reach the site through a crowd of onlookers.
Cairo blast wounds 11
Updated 03 March 2015