26 February 2015, 14:38 GMT
CAIRO (Sputnik) — Local media reports cite police as saying a homemade bomb set off near the local police station on the east bank of the River Nile.
Further details are not available at the moment.
Terror attacks against law enforcement officials in Egypt have increased, following the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in the summer of 2013.
A more tense situation is observed in the northern Sinai Peninsula, where militant attacks and retaliatory acts are carried out on a nearly daily basis.