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© AhramThe explosion partially damaged Mansoura's security directorate (Photo: Ahram)
An explosion at a police headquarters in Mansoura, Egypt, early Tuesday morning has killed at least 11 people and injured over 80, according to Egyptian state news and a security official.

The Middle East News Agency said the explosion at a security directorate in Mansoura, capital of the Daqahliya province in northern Egypt, caused a partial collapse of the five-floor building. A security official told AP 11 people were dead and over 80 injured as a result. Most of the dead were among police agents inside the security building.

The head of the security directorate was among those injured, Daqahliya governor Omar El-Shawadfy told Egypt state television.

Hisham Masoud, General Manager of Mansoura's hospitals, told Ahram the casualty toll is expected to rise based on eyewitness reports of the condition of those in the badly-damaged Daqahliya security directorate.

Al-Ahram's Arabic site quoted an anonymous security source who said two bombs exploded at the same time. The first, the source said, went off on a higher floor in the directorate as the second detonated in a car next to the building.

A third explosive device in another car was defused, the source said.

Photos of the Daqahliya security directorate were posted on Al-Ahram's Arabic site not long after the incident. The images showed severely damaged exterior walls of the building, as well as demolished vehicles parked on the premises.