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A Sinai-based militant group said late Tuesday that it carried out the assassination of a senior Egyptian interior ministry official near his house.
Two gunmen on a motorbike shot down General Mohamed Saeed, head of the ministry's technical office in his car outside his home early Tuesday in the Giza governorate.
In an online statement, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, an Islamist movement inspired by al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for killing of the "apostate" official and promised more attacks against the authorities.
It has already claimed responsibility for several terrorist attacks since the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July.
Tuesday's attack came a few hours before Morsi appeared in a courthouse on charges of jail break and killing police personnel during the 2011 uprising that toppled his predecessor Hosni Mubarak.
Later in the day, another police officer was shot dead by unknown gunmen who attacked a Coptic church in October 6 City, northwest of Giza.
Military spokesman Mohamed Ahmed Ali accused "members of the Muslim Brotherhood" of backing the two incidents.
