Blast rattles Cairo suburb, killing 1

CAIRO — Egypt’s Interior Ministry said a man was killed and three members of his family were injured on Friday when a device exploded while he was cleaning up his backyard in a Cairo suburb.

The Interior Ministry stated that the explosion in Maadi during the afternoon of March 24 was the detonation of an improvised explosive device. It occurred as a property guard discovered the device and tampered with it when cleaning out a garden attached to a property on Algeria Street. The guard was killed during the incident and three members of his family were injured.

The leafy Cairo suburb of Maadi is home to many diplomatic residences in the Egyptian capital.

No group has claimed responsibility for the explosion, and it is unlikely that a claim will be made since the bombing resulted in the death of civilians.