Bombing on bridge in Egypt capital kills officer: police

A bomb exploded near a police checkpoint on bridge in an affluent Cairo neighbourhood on April 5, killing an officer, Egyptian police officials said.
      
The bomb had been placed next to the checkpoint on a side of the May 15 bridge located in the neighbourhood of Zamalek, the officials said.
      
Two people were wounded in the blast, which tore the victim's body to pieces, a health ministry official said.
      
An AFP correspondent said there was a pool of blood next to the checkpoint.
      
A police official said the bomb went off as the driver of a minivan pulled over to ask the police officer a question, likely for directions.        

Militants have repeatedly set off bombs in Cairo targeting police checkpoints and vehicles.
      
The more sophisticated attacks have been claimed by jihadist group Ajnad Misr, which says they were carried out in retaliation for the deaths of hundreds of Islamist protesters in the past two years.
      
The group has claimed responsibility for bombings outside the presidential palace and foreign ministry that killed four policemen last year, two of them explosives experts.
      
After the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013, authorities unleashed an extensive crackdown on his supporters that left hundreds dead and thousands in prison.
      
Ajnad Misr has said it deliberately uses low yield bombs to avoid harming passersby, but there has also been an uptick in civilian casualties.
      
A bomb outside Cairo University last month wounded four civilians and four policemen.
      
Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest political movement before his overthrow, has been designated a terrorist group...