CAIRO  - Egypt's gross domestic product growth in the first quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year climbed to 5.2 percent from 3.4 percent the previous year, the planning minister said on Wednesday.

The country expects an economic growth rate of between 5 and 5.25 percent in the current fiscal year ending in June 2018, Finance Minister Amr El Garhy has said previously.

(Reporting by Momen Abdelkhalek; Writing by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Alison Williams) ((Nadine.Awadalla@thomsonreuters.com;))