The Egyptian government said Islamist militants were behind an explosion that killed at least 20 people in Cairo on Sunday.
The militants were moving a vehicle with explosives when it detonated outside the National Cancer Institute, the Interior Ministry said Monday. Nearly 50 other people were injured in the blast, which was initially said to be caused by a car accident.
The ministry said the car was being transported by the Hasm movement, a group linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, for a terrorist operation. President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi condemned the attack as a “cowardly terrorist incident.”
The incident was one of the deadliest by extremists in the Egyptian capital in years.
An explosion targeting a tourist bus in May near the Giza pyramids injured more than a dozen people. It was the second attack on tourists in the area since December, when four people were killed by a roadside bomb.
