Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will meet on Monday with his Italian counterpart Paolo Gentiloni, who visits Cairo on an official visit, two days after a car bomb targeted the Italian consulate in the city, state news agency MENA reported. They will discuss ways of bolstering bilateral cooperation between the two Mediterranean countries to combat terrorism and fight against illegal immigration. Gentiloni's one-day visit comes after calls by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Shoukry on Rome to intensify cooperation with Italy in the fight against terrorism. The attack, claimed by the Islamic State-linked Wilayat Sinai group, left one civilian dead and ten others injured, according to the health ministry.