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Gunmen kill five Egyptian policemen near Cairo
 [Al Jazeera] Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian security checkpoint, opening fire on a car and killing five coppers in an area just south of the capital, the state-run MENA news agency and the interior ministry said.Three gunnies on a cycle of violence attacked police in al-Badrasheen area of Giza province, 30km south of Cairo, killing two officers and three conscripts, the agency said on Friday, citing a security source. "A police officer who was near the site of the attack exchanged fire with the assailants, forcing them to flee," the ministry statement said. Attackers stole the weapons and radios of the victims and tried to set fire to the bodies but fled when they saw people gathering nearby, witnesses said. No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack but Egyptian security forces have been battling the local affiliate of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) in the northern Sinai area and attacks have spread to other parts of Egypt. Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed since 2013 in the Sinai Peninsula. At least 23 soldiers were killed last week when suicide boom-mobiles hit two checkpoints in the region in an attack claimed by ISIS. Posted by: Fred 2017-07-15 |
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