Two people were killed after a bomb exploded near a top court building in central Cairo on Monday, the health ministry said, extending a series of such attacks in the Egyptian capital.
The repeated security incidents in Cairo have raised concern over the effectiveness of security forces who have pledged to end Islamist militant violence bedevilling government efforts to revive investment and foreign tourism crucial to the economy and stability of the Arab world's most populous country.
An Interior Ministry statement said the bomb exploded under a car near the courthouse, wounding police and civilians. Health ministry spokesman Dr. Hossam Abdel Ghaffar later told Reuters that two civilians were killed and there were nine wounded.
Crowds gathered in front of the court, where police had blocked off nearby roads. There was some damage to two cars in the area and blood splattered on a nearby pavement.
While most of the worst attacks in Egypt have hit the Sinai Peninsula, a remote but strategic region bordering Gaza and Israel that is a hotbed of Islamist militants, smaller blasts have become increasingly common in Cairo and other cities.
Sisi, now president, has cracked down hard on Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, which the government has declared a terrorist group. The Brotherhood renounced violence as a means of political change decades ago and denies any link with recent militant attacks.
Sisi signed off on an anti-terrorism law last week giving authorities sweeping powers to ban groups on charges ranging from harming national unity to disrupting public order, dimming hopes for democratisation raised by the fall of veteran autocrat Hosni Mubarak to a popular uprising in 2011.
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