ISIS claims responsibility of blast near Egypt pyramids

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CAIRO: At least four people were wounded on Friday bomb blast at a Cairo intersection near the Pyramids, the interior ministry said, and ISIS claimed it had planted the device.

Separately in Sinai, where the ISIS group is waging an insurgency, a roadside bombing killed a police officer and wounded three others in the town of El-Arish, the ministry said.

The Cairo bomb went off at the Rimaya intersection, close to several hotels and 1.5km from the Pyramids, it said.

Militants in the Sinai Peninsula pledged allegiance last year to ISIS, which controls parts of Iraq and Syria.