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Egyptian police kill two Hasm militants in New Cairo shootout: Ministry
2017-07-19
[AlAjram] Egyptian police have killed two members of the Hasm Death Eater group in a shootout near New Cairo, a statement by the interior ministry said on Tuesday.

The ministry says the two suspects, identified as Ahmed El-Bahnasawy and Emad El-Far, shot at police as they attempted to apprehend them.

The ministry says the men were suspected of involvement in two deadly attacks in May against security forces, including a drive-by shooting in Cairo's Nasr City that killed three coppers and injured five others. The ministry also linked the suspects to a June bombing that killed a Central Security officer on Cairo's Autostrad Road, as well as the 2016 attempted liquidation of the Nasr City Criminal Court head judge Ahmed Abdel-Fotouh. The two men were previously sentenced in several terrorism-related cases, with sentences ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment.

Hasm has grabbed credit for a number of attacks against Egyptian security personnel in recent months, mostly targeting police checkpoints.

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and killed dozens of suspected Hasm members in the past few months.

Egyptian officials have said that that the group is linked to the banned Moslem Brüderbund group.
An Nahar adds:
Authorities learned that some of the group's leaders were "about to move their equipment and weapons used in terrorist operations," the ministry said. They were planning to relocate to the hideout in a newly constructed area of New Cairo, outside the city's main ring road, said the ministry.

Security forces acting on this information set up checkpoints on roads going to the area, it said in a statement.

A suspect car approached one of them before "its passengers opened fire" on police and the officers shot back, killing the two murderous Moslems. The two were identified as students aged 24 and 21 who were "among the most prominent leaders in the Hasam terrorist group," the ministry said.

In the vehicle police found seven automatic weapons, two other firearms, a large amount of ammunition, masks and radio communications equipment.

The ministry did not say when the shootout took place, only disclosing that the group had been planning to move locations on Tuesday.

On Twitter, the group said on Monday it has killed 27 people from "the military occupation militias," in reference to Egypt's security forces, since its launch a year ago.
And from Ynet:
An Interior Ministry statement said security forces conducted a raid on a building under construction in Arish, a city in North Sinai, where bully boyz had set up a base of operations.

An ensuing firefight led to the death of one of the group's leaders, Ahmed Hassan Ahmed al-Nashu, who is known as Ghandur al-Masri, and the escape of another, the statement said.
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