A car bomb has killed 14 people and injured 120 as it tore through a police headquarters in the Delta region city of Mansoura, Egyptian officials have said.
Al Jazeera's Peter Greste, reporting from Cairo, said it was not yet clear whether he bomb that rocked Dakhalya Police Security Directorate in the capital of Dakhalya Governorate early on Tuesday had been operated by a suicide bomber or whether it was remotely detonated.
"Police also said that there was a second device," our correspondent said.
The Ministry of Interior said that a police van containing 15 policemen parked by the building was destroyed, set ablaze and four bodies had been pulled out. Rescuers were still trying to reach the other bodies.
Al Jazeera's Mohamed Fahmy said five high-ranking police officers were among those to die in the blast while the head of security and the head of investigations department were critically injured.
"The explosion was so strong that parts of the gate surrounding the directorate is demolished," Fahmy said.
"The injured are both police and civilians.
"Rescue teams pulling people from under rubble."
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