4 hurt in blast near Cairo pyramids

(MENAFN- Arab News) CAIRO: Four people including two Egyptian policemen were wounded when a bomb they were trying to defuse exploded in Cairo near the pyramids Friday while an officer died in an attack in Sinai officials said.

Two policemen and two hotel security guards were wounded in the blast outside the Meridien hotel near the Giza pyramids a security official said.
The explosion critically wounded one of the policemen.
Elsewhere in Egypt a police officer was killed and three were wounded in the North Sinai town of El-Arish when a roadside bomb exploded as they drove past in an armored vehicle the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The north of the peninsula where security forces are fighting an insurgency is a bastion of the Egyptian affiliate of the militant Daesh group.
The insurgency has swelled since the army's ouster of President Muhammad Mursi in July 2013.
Militants loyal to Daesh have killed hundreds of Egyptian soldiers and policemen mostly in North Sinai. Meanwhile the Interior Ministry said authorities have arrested a senior leader and financier of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
Friday's statement says businessman Hassan Malik was arrested Thursday in his Cairo home for "exacerbating the instability of the dollar exchange rate."
Malik was one of the few prominent Brotherhood members to remain in Cairo and out of prison.
The arrest comes after Egypt's central bank weakened the pound twice in recent days falling 20 piasters to 7.93 pounds per dollar at auction.
Egypt's economy is still reeling from years of turmoil following the 2011 toppling of former President Hosni Mubarak.