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Gunmen on Motorbike Shoot Dead Egypt Policeman
[AnNahar] Gunmen on a cycle of violence rubbed out an Egyptian policeman while two suspects in a failed kaboom targeting a judge were killed in a shoot-out with police, officials said Monday.Militants have carried out regular attacks on coppers and soldiers since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in July 2013. The gunnies on a motorbike opened fire on a policeman during the night near a court in Belbeis, a town around 60 kilometers (about 38 miles) northeast of Cairo, a police official said. The policeman died in hospital. In a separate incident, police potted two men suspected of involvement in a failed kaboom that targeted judge Mutaz Khafagi in Cairo last week, the interior ministry said in a statement. The two suspects, who lived in a Cairo suburb, were rubbed out in a firefight when police went to arrest them, the ministry said without specifying when they were killed. Khafagi sentenced 12 men to death in August 2014 after convicting them of murdering a police general in the town of Kerdasa near Cairo during a police crackdown targeting Morsi's supporters. He also sentenced Moslem Brüderbund chief Mohammed Badie to life in prison in February. On May 10, three small bombs went kaboom!outside Khafagi's home in Cairo, wounding four people and damaging the building. Khafagi was in his first-floor apartment at the time of the attack but was not maimed.
"An automatic rifle and a pistol was found beside them," the statement read. The dead men were identified as Ahmed Hassan Abd El-Latif, 32, an engineer at Helwan's health department, and Saeed Ahmed El-Sayed, 33. The statement claimed they were members of the banned-Moslem Brüderbund group. Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-19 |
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