Six policemen were injured early Thursday morning when a car exploded outside the state security building in Cairo, Egypt's interior ministry said.
In a statement, the ministry said that a man driving the car leapt from the vehicle before it blew up and fled on a motorbike that was following him. The building is in the Shubra Al-Khaima neighborhood, and the explosion rattled windows and woke people up across the area. Over the past few months, several bombings have taken place in Egypt, including an attack in broad daylight that killed the country's chief prosecutor.
A few days ago, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi signed into law new anti-terrorism legislation that sets up special courts, enacts harsh penalties for offenses considered terrorism-related, and imposes fines for journalists who dispute the government's version of an attack, The Guardian reports.
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