A video circulating on local media showed the moment Monday’s blast occurred. They also said that upon searching his apartment, police found a time bomb and temporarily evacuated the building until the bomb was defused. These attacks have been mostly claimed by groups including the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS). Last month, a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse an explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. In December, three Vietnamese tourists and their Egyptian guide were killed after a roadside bomb struck a tourist bus near the Pyramids of Giza, south of Cairo.

Source: Nigerian Tribune February 19, 2019 12:56 UTC