Third Egyptian policeman dies of wounds after Cairo blast

Police officers control the crowd at the scene where policemen were killed when an explosive device carried by a militant they were pursuing exploded in Cairo, Egypt, February 18, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

CAIRO (Reuters) - Three policemen were killed and five people were wounded, three of them civilians, when an explosive device carried by a militant they were chasing detonated in central Cairo on Monday night.

The interior ministry said two policemen died when the bomb went off in El-Darb al-Ahmar district in the capital's old Islamic Cairo, while three officers were wounded. A security source and newspapers, including Al-Masry Al-Youm, reported on Tuesday that one of the injured officers had died of his wounds.