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| Two police officers dead as attacks continue across Egypt |
| 2014-03-04 |
| [Al Ahram] Attacks on security personnel continued in four Egyptian cities on Monday, with two coppers rubbed out and another hospitalised with severe gunshot wounds. Hassan Sayed, a police officer in the Upper Egyptian city of Beni Suef, was bumped off by unknown assailants in front of a currency exchange office while he was on his way to work, according to an official source from the interior ministry, state-run MENA reported. Meanwhile near Cairo, a low-ranking police officer was rubbed out in the Al-Badrasheen district of Giza. The officer was riding in a police vehicle when it came under fire from an gang of person or persons unknown travelling on a cycle of violence. Also in Giza, another officer was severely injured when he was shot by unknown assailants. The officer was sent to the hospital shortly afterwards. In the southern city of Aswan, an unidentified group set fire to a car belonging to an official in the city's criminal investigation department. Also on Monday, an unknown group shot at a police rescue car in front of a cop shoppe in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, leaving one officer injured and a nearby shop damaged. Sayed's death in Beni Suef recalls three other senior coppers who have been bumped off in a similar manner in recent months -- Mohammed Mabrouk in Cairo in November, Mohammed Said in Giza in January and Mohammed Eid Abdel-Salam in Sharqiya in February. About 175 coppers have died in the political turmoil following the ouster of president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Timeprinciple, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator.... Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim survived an liquidation attempt in Cairo last September. The killings of coppers Mabrouk and Said, as well as the attempt on Ibrahim, have all been claimed by the bad boy Islamist group Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, which has been responsible for a wave of terrorist attacks in recent months targeting the police and army. |
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