Deadly blast outside Cairo hospital 'terrorist incident

An explosion in Cairo on Sunday evening which killed 20 people was terrorist-related, Egypt's president has said.

A car drove at high speed in the wrong direction, crashing into three others outside a cancer hospital in central Cairo, causing an explosion.

Another 47 people were injured, at least three of them critically, a health ministry spokesman added.

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sent condolences to families of those killed in the "cowardly terrorist incident".

"I extend my deepest condolences to the Egyptian people and the families of the martyrs killed in the cowardly terrorist incident in the vicinity of the Kasr al-Aini area yesterday evening," he wrote in a tribute to the victims on his official social media accounts.