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CAIRO. — At least one person was killed and several others wounded yesterday in bomb explosions in south of capital Cairo, Health Ministry said.Bombs went off outside the offices of cellphone companies, a restaurant and a police station in Giza province, the ministry said in a statement.

One bomb went off outside a pizzeria, in the residential Imbaba district of Giza early yesterday, wounded four restaurant staff, and killed the other, the statement added.

The blast tore off the legs of the victim who passed away before reaching the hospital, health ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said. Three other bombs exploded outside two offices of British firm Vodafone and a branch of United Arab Emirates-owned Etisalat, damaging the store fronts, state-run Ahram website reported, noting the branches were closed and no one was injured.

Later, six people including four policemen were injured in separate bombing outside Waraq Police Station. The disposal team managed to defuse two bombs planted near the same station.

Interior ministry said the authorities had been on the alert for attacks in the run-up to awaited parliamentary elections next month.
Wave of militants attacks, mainly based in the Sinai Peninsula, hit the country after the ouster of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. — Xinhua.