There has been a large explosion in central Cairo near the city’s police headquarters, Egyptian state TV has said.

Two veiled women shot at a tour bus, and the fiance of one of the women blew himself up as he leaped off a bridge during a police chase today, wounding seven people in the second strike on tourists in less than a month.

A nail bomb exploded among a group of tourists in a historic Cairo bazaar yesterday, killing at least two people and wounding 18.

A reported four people were killed and 19 injured when an explosion apparently set off by a man on a motorcycle hit a popular tourist bazaar in Cairo’s Old City today.

An explosion in a bazaar popular with tourists near Cairo’s al-Azhar mosque today killed one person and wounded five others.