A bomb blast at the heart of the Egyptian capital's tourist district has left one person dead and 23 injured.
Police said a French woman was killed in the explosion on Sunday outside Cairo's historic Hussein mosque in the popular Khan el-Khalili bazaar area.
Egyptian, French, German and Saudi nationals were injured by flying stone and marble fragments, a police official at the scene said.
"It was an explosive, perhaps a hand grenade," one police official said.
Details remained sketchy but the interior ministry said in a statement that bombs were planted under a seat near a cafe just outside the al-Hussein Hotel.
The Egyptian Middle East news agency, quoting witnesses, earlier reported that explosive devices were thrown from the roof of a nearby hotel.
Blood stains could be seen in the front courtyard of the mosque, next to the famed bazaar.
Police later detonated a second device without causing any injuries.
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