CAIRO, 18th June, 2017 (WAM) -- A roadside bomb has exploded in southern Cairo killing a police officer and injuring four others, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

Quoting the ministry's statement which was released on its official Facebook account, Deutsche-Presse Agentur, DPA, reported that the explosion took place early Sunday on a highway in the capital's al-Basateen quarter, hitting a police van.

Police have launched a massive hunt for the suspected perpetrators, the statement added.

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