total of 17 people have died and 32 have been injured in an car explosion outside Egypt's National Cancer Institute in central Cairo. The incident was confirmed by Egypt's health ministry 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, sources told Reuters, but there was no official statement indicating that the explosion was an attack.

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