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Al-Qaeda inspired group claims Cairo bombs

An al-Qaeda inspired group has told Muslims to stay away from police buildings in Egypt after claiming responsibility for four bombings.

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Egyptian police and civilians gather at the site of a car bomb explosion outside police headquarter in Cairo, Egypt, 24 January 2014. (AAP)

An Al-Qaeda inspired group in Egypt has claimed responsibility for four bombings targeting police in Cairo that killed six people.

Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Partisans of Jerusalem, also called in its statement for Muslims to stay away from police buildings.

The group had previously taken responsibility for some of the deadliest bombings across the country following the military's overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July.

The group, in a statement posted on Saturday on a website used by Islamist militants, said it remotely detonated a car bomb outside Cairo police headquarters on Friday morning that killed four people, and followed up the attack with three other bombings across the capital.

"In this context, we repeat our call to our people in Egypt to avoid security and police installations, because we are trying very hard to avoid harming Muslims," the statement said.


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