2 killed in courthouse explosion

2 people have been killed in Cairo, Egypt after a bomb exploded in a car parked close to the court house in Central Cairo.

Reuters reports that the health ministry described it as the deadliest attack in three blasts to hit the Egyptian capital on Monday.

A statement from the Interior Ministry states that the bomb exploded under a car near the courthouse, wounding police and civilians. It's also reported that two civilians were killed, and nine wounded in the explosion.

Meanwhile elsewhere same Monday, reports state that a homemade bomb exploded in the Heliopolis suburb of Cairo causing no casualties.

Also another homemade bomb exploded near a police station in the Cairo suburb of Maadi, damaging a few cars but causing no casualties. The bomb reportedly went off near a fire station.

Egypt has been grappling with rising Islamist militancy since then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted freely elected Islamist President Mohamed Mursi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

President Sisi has since then cracked down on Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, which the government has declared a terrorist group. The Brotherhood, however renounced violence as a means of political change decades ago and denies any link with recent militant attacks.

Monday's attack is not the first to target court buildings as a homemade bomb exploded near the same area, in October wounding 12 people.