Head of Cairo Directorate Khaled Abdel Aal inspected Monday Heliopolis court's blast scene to check the security situation in the area, al-Bawaba News reported. Cairo's civil protection administration general director, Gamal Halawa said that a homemade bomb was planted near the court, wounding two police officers and a civilian. Halawa added that bomb disposal experts intensified their presence immediately in the blast scene to scan the area for other potential threats, pointing out that they found another bomb and succeeded to defuse it. Egypt has been hit by a string of deadly blasts claiming hundreds of lives, mostly among security personnel since the ousting of former president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
