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| Cairo bombing 'kills senior Egyptian policeman' | Cairo bombing 'kills senior Egyptian policeman' |
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| A senior Egyptian police officer has been killed by a bomb blast in the capital, Cairo, security officials say. | A senior Egyptian police officer has been killed by a bomb blast in the capital, Cairo, security officials say. |
| Brig-Gen Ahmed Zaki died when an explosive device placed under his official vehicle was detonated in the western suburb of 6 October City. | |
| He was the fifth police general to be killed since the start of the year. | |
| Jihadist militants have stepped up attacks on security personnel and killed hundreds since the army ousted President Mohammed Morsi last July. | |
| A security source told BBC Arabic that an officer was also killed on Wednesday while chasing "terrorists" in the northern city of Alexandria. | |
| On Saturday, gunmen killed an intelligence officer and a policeman while patrolling a desert road linking Cairo to the canal city of Suez. | |
| The attack came a day after a policeman died in another bombing in the capital claimed by a group named Ajnad Misr (Egypt's Soldiers). | |
| It says it is waging a campaign against police because of the state's crackdown on Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, in which more than 1,300 people have been killed and 16,000 others detained. | |
| The insurgency threatens security ahead of May's presidential election, which former military chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win. | |
| The retired field marshal has vowed to crush the militants. |