CAIRO: An Egyptian policeman was charged on Wednesday with murdering a suspected Muslim Brotherhood member, and two members of the security forces with concealing evidence in the death of a protester, judicial and security sources said.

The Brotherhood member had been taken to hospital for treatment after being shot by police while trying to plant a bomb, the sources said. The policeman said he shot the man dead in the hospital after he was provoked by gloating about a recent militant attack on security forces in the Sinai region.

In a separate case, public prosecutor Hesham Barakat charged a police major general and a conscript with concealing evidence in the shooting death of Shaimaa Sabbagh. The 32-year-old mother was killed by a police officer who fired birdshot to try to disperse a street protest in Cairo in January marking the fourth anniversary of the anti-Mubarak revolt.

The charge of concealing evidence carries a maximum sentence of three years in prison, judicial sources said.