CAIRO: At least nine people killed including three police officers while 13 others sustain injures, during what the authorities said was a security raid on a suspected militant hide-out near the Pyramids.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry said in a statement that the raid, in Giza, had targeted a militant cell that had been preparing explosives to use in attacks on public buildings.
The blast occurred as bomb technicians were attempting to defuse booby traps, the statement said. It was unclear how the other victims figured in the raid and its aftermath, though one was said to be a civilian.
The blast occurred less than a mile from the Pyramids, though the government gave no indication that the militants were planning attacks on tourists.
