Three homemade bombs went off on Monday near Egypt's presidential palace in Cairo, killing two senior police officers and wounding eight people, security officials said, in an attack that fell on the first anniversary of the mass protests that led to the ouster of then-President Mohammed Morsi.
The officials said the first bomb slightly wounded three street cleaners, while a second and third exploded while bomb squad teams were trying to defuse them, killing a police colonel and a lieutenant-colonel and wounding five other policemen, the officials said.
Another device in the area was discovered and defused, said the officials.
All the devices were planted less than 20 yards away from the walls of the Ittihadiya palace in the upscale Heliopolis district in eastern Cairo. It was not immediately clear whether President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who as army chief ousted the Islamist Morsi, was inside the palace when the blasts went off.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
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