Bomb, shooting in Egypt kill 2 police officers

CAIRO, Apr 23 (AP): A senior Egyptian police officer was killed after an explosive device placed under his car went off in a western Cairo suburb on Wednesday while another officer died in a raid on a militant hideout in the country's second-largest city, officials said.
 The deaths came amid stepped-up attacks against Egyptian police and military as militant groups wage an increasingly violent campaign following the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
 In the Cairo attack, Brig. Gen. Ahmed Zaki was heading to work from his home in the 6th of October suburb when the bomb detonated under his car, wounding him critically. He later died in the hospital, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. Two conscripts were wounded in the attack.
 And in Egypt's second-largest city, Alexandria, Lt. Ahmed Saad was shot and killed during a raid on a militant hideout, officials said. Alexandria's police chief Police Maj. Gen. Amin Ezzedin told Egypt's state news agency MENA that suspected militants fired at the police force raiding their hideout.
 Ezzedine said one suspect was also killed in the shootout, and another was arrested. Two explosive belts, machine guns and homemade bombs were seized in the raid in the Borg al-Arab district of Alexandria.