Egyptian police killed three alleged Islamist militants in a shootout and arrested nine belonging to the Lewaa al-Thawra group that assassinated an army general last year, the country’s Interior Ministry says.
Lewaa al-Thawra surfaced in 2016 to claim several attacks in Cairo, including the assassination of an army brigadier general outside his suburban home in October.
Police have accused the blacklisted Muslim Brotherhood movement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi of directing the group.
The interior ministry says police carried out raids against members of the group in the provinces of Cairo, Giza, Beheira, and Kafr el-Sheikh.
In one of the raids in Beheira on a hideout used to make bombs the suspects opened fire as police approached, triggering a shootout in which three “Brotherhood terrorist elements” were killed, the ministry says.
It does not say when the raids occurred.
— AFP
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