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Monday, December 4, 2017
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Monday, December 4, 2017
Egypt’s police say 5 militants killed, 6 arrested near Cairo
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEgypt’s Interior Ministry says security forces have killed five suspected militants in a shootout in a province about 150 kilometers (93 miles) east of Cairo.
It says in a statement that police arrested another six militants in followup raids on a desert area in the Sharqiya province.
Police found bomb-making materials, assault rifles and ammunition at the site, the statement adds.
Egypt’s military and security forces have been waging a yearslong campaign against militants, mainly in the northern region of the Sinai peninsula — where Islamic extremists carried out the country’s deadliest attack last month, killing 305 people — and the country has been in a state of emergency for months.
— AP
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