One person was killed on Thursday in an attack on a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Menoufia province, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, official news agency MENA reported.

The restaurant, located at Qouwasna city, 80 km north to Cairo, was set ablaze after unknown militants on a motorcycle threw flammable materials, the report quoted Momtaz Fahmy, head of Menoufia security headquarters, as saying.

The assailants then shoot randomly on the restaurant workers and fled the scene, the report added.

Elsewhere in Sinai's Arish city, gunmen in a car opened fire on security men guarding a hotel inhabited by police officers, killing one conscript and wounding another, official security source told Xinhua.

The conscript, 22, was shot dead while he was putting his luggage inside a car near the hotel, the source added.

A wave of attacks hit Egypt after the ouster of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 by the army.

The militants killed hundreds of police and army men in retaliation of harsh crackdown on Morsi's supporters which left nearly 1,000 dead.

Lately, the militant operations crept from its center in Sinai to the capital and other cities targeting civilians.

Last week, Sinai-based al-Qaida-inspired Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis group, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, claimed responsibility for attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula that killed at least 30 people.