Seventeen dead in car explosion in central Cairo -health ministry

Seventeen people died and 32 were injured in an explosion outside Egypt's National Cancer Institute in central Cairo, Egypt's health ministry said early on Monday.

A car driving against traffic on Cairo's corniche collided with three other cars, causing the explosion, Egypt's interior ministry said in a statement. Egypt's public prosecutor is investigating the cause of the incident but there was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack.