Civil defense forces defused Thursday two homemade bombs in Beni Sweif province, southern Egypt, police sources said. Eyewitnesses informed the police that unidentified people planted a bomb near a police station in Beba city and another near the city's Agricultural Research Center, the sources added. The two bombs were defused by water cannons, the sources added, indicating the whole area was combed for fear of other potential threats. Since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi, July 2013, a string of deadly blasts hit Egypt, mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, killing and wounding hundreds of police personnel and civilians.