CAIRO, June 7 (Xinhua) -- A bomb blast killed a man and injured his brother nearby the Egyptian capital city of Cairo on Saturday, state-run Al Ahram newspaper reported on its website.
The pair was securing an area in Cairo's neighboring province Giza and they found a suspicious item. When checking out the item, it detonated as it was a home-made bomb, the report said.
The explosion comes only one day before the swearing-in ceremony of President-elect Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi who made a landslide victory in the country's May presidential election.
Sisi, the former army chief, led the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi last July over nationwide protests against the one-year rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Since Morsi's ouster, Egypt has been rocked by a wave of explosions, mostly in the restive Sinai Peninsula against security men and their premises. Lately, blasts occurred in Cairo and Nile Delta cities.
A recent governmental report said the death toll from such attacks reached nearly 500 people, most of them soldiers and policemen.
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