The police officers had been guarding branches of two foreign banks, when they were attacked near a Cairo square.

Gunmen on a motorbike killed a policeman and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in the Egyptian capital on Saturday, the interior ministry said.

“Armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on the police before fleeing,” ministry spokesman Hani Abdel Latif told AFP.

No one has claimed responsibility, but the Sinai-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis militant group – which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – has carried a string of similar attacks against police and army forces.

The police officers had been guarding branches of two foreign banks, when they were attacked near a Cairo square.

Scores of policemen and soldiers have been killed in bombings and shootings since the Egyptian military deposed Islamist President Mohammad Mursi in July 2013.

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