AN Egyptian bomb disposal cop has been killed while trying to defuse a bomb outside a petrol station in Cairo
Video pictures show the Egyptian policeman approaching the device which was hidden in a plant pot outside a petrol station in Cairo yesterday.
But it blew up, killing him and injuring three bystanders.
Crowds of people rushed to the stricken officer in busy Al-Harram Street, which leads to the pyramids, but he could not be helped.
Islamic militants, some allied with IS, claimed responsibility for the attack.
They have been fighting the Egyptian army, which overthrew the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. More pics after the cut.
