Egyptian police have killed two militants suspected of having been involved in a recent bomb attack on the Italian consulate in the capital, Cairo.

Security officials said on Monday that the two were killed during a gunfight that erupted during a raid on an apartment in the city when police wanted to arrest them.

An unnamed police official also said the two “belonged to Ajnad Misr, and investigations reveal that they could be involved in the bombing of the Italian consulate,” adding that they were also wanted “for their role in assassinating policemen.”

The Italian mission was hit by a bomb attack on July 11, with the Takfiri ISIL group claiming responsibility. At least one person was killed in the blast and nine others suffered injuries.

Ajnad Misr has previously carried out a number of deadly assaults in Cairo, particularly targeting security forces. The militants have also been behind bombing attacks on key buildings such as the presidential palace and the Cairo University.

The group’s leader, known as Hammam Mohamed Attiyah, was killed by police in April.

The militants were previously members of the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis, a terror group that is now known as Velayat Sinai and has pledged allegiance to the ISIL, according to police.

Attiyah reportedly left Ansar Bait al-Maqdis in 2013 to create Ajnad Misr, which mainly operates in the Egyptian capital.

Security has worsened in Egypt, particularly in the volatile Sinai Peninsula, since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the country’s first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, two years ago.