Cairo: Two Egyptian policemen were killed after being shot by unidentified gunmen in Cairo on Tuesday evening, an Interior Ministry spokesman told Reuters.
"Two unidentified gunmen opened fire on a car carrying Colonel Wael Tahoon in the district of Ain Shams in Cairo while he was on his way to work, resulting in his death and a recruit who was driving the car," Hany Abdel Latif said.
Earlier the website of the state run Al-Ahram newspaper said the two policemen were killed in a bomb attack.
Egypt is facing an insurgency based in the North Sinai that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Mursi after protests against his rule.
Sinai Province, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State, has claimed such attacks in the past but has mainly focussed on targets in the Sinai Peninsula, a strategic area bordering Israel, Gaza and the Suez Canal.
Other groups have launched attacks in Cairo and other cities.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Tuesday`s attack which came after a court sentenced Mursi to 20 years in prison without parole on charges arising from the killing of protesters during his rule earlier today.
Egypt`s government says Mursi`s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group, but the movement says it is committed to peaceful activism.