AKIPRESS.COM - At least six people were wounded early on Thursday in a car bombing near a state security building and courthouse in a Cairo suburb, Haaretz reported.

The sources, who inspected the site of the blast in Shubra al-Khaima, told Reuters there was a burned-out vehicle and crater.

Comments on Twitter indicated the blast was heard in several parts of the Egyptian capital.

Militants based in Sinai, who support the Islamic State group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria and have a presence in Egypt's neighbor Libya, have previously claimed responsibility for attacks on security forces.

Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed since the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013 after mass protests against his rule.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi has vowed to eradicate militancy, which he has said is an existential threat to the Arab world and the West.