Bomb blast near the pyramids in Cairo kills six people

All the victims were police officers and the device went off in a bin

Six people have been killed in a bomb blast near the pyramids in Egypt.

The explosion took place at a checkpoint near a mosque in the western Talibiya neighbourhood of the Egyptian capital Cairo.

According to reports, all the victims were police officers and the device went off in a bin

The bomb went off on Pyramids road, the main avenue leading from the city centre out to the Giza pyramids.

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