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Monday, December 18, 2017
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Monday, December 18, 2017
Egypt says police kill 5 gunmen near Cairo
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEgypt says police have killed five suspected militants in a shootout just outside Cairo.
The Interior Ministry, which oversees security forces, say police launched a raid against the gunmen on Monday in el-Obour, just north of the capital. It says another 10 suspects were arrested in followup raids nearby and in the northern city of Alexandria.
The statement says the suspects were part of an extremist group plotting to attack churches. Rifles and ammunition were found at the scenes of the raids, it added.
Egypt has been struggling to combat an Islamic State-led insurgency in the northern Sinai Peninsula. IS and other groups have carried out a string of attacks across the country in recent years.
— AP
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