One dead in Egypt bombings

CAIRO: One person was killed Thursday in a bombing outside a pizzeria in the Egyptian capital as other blasts hit a police station and offices of cell phone companies, a health official said.
The bomb tore off the legs of the victim who was pronounced dead in hospital, Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar told AFP. Two other people were wounded.
The restaurant was next to a branch of the Britain-based cell phone provider Vodafone.
Meanwhile, Two Egyptian policemen accused of killing a lawyer in custody were detained on Thursday on the orders of an Egyptian prosecutor, judicial sources said, a rare action against members of the security forces. The officers, a lieutenant colonel and a major, will be held for four days pending investigations in to the death of Karim Hamdy on Tuesday, sources at the prosecutor’s office said, and could be charged with murder.
Hamdy, 27, died from torture two days after his arrest and the forensic report showed he had sustained fractures in the ribs, bruises and bleeding in the chest and head, they said.