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Islamic State claims responsibility for Cairo attack that killed nine

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Friday for a bomb attack that killed nine people in Cairo.

In a statement on social media, it said its fighters carried out the operation that killed six policemen and three others during a raid on a booby-trapped home on Thursday near the site of Egypt's pyramids.

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