CAIRO: Egyptian
security forces killed in a shootout two people
suspected of being prominent members of the militant Hasm Movement, an Interior Ministry statement said on Friday.
Hasm, a group that emerged last year and has claimed several attacks on
security forces, said on Friday it had carried out a shooting on Thursday in Fayoum, a province about 60 km south of Cairo, that killed one policemen and injured three others.
Egypt accuses Hasm of being a militant wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group it outlawed in 2013. The Muslim Brotherhood denies this. The interior ministry statement said
security forces raided a hideout in Fayoum being used by the group, leading to a firefight that killed two members responsible for carrying out recent attacks.
The statement did **t say when the raid took place or whether the
militants killed were responsible for Thursday´s police shooting. This month,
Egypt saw one of the worst attacks on its
security forces in years, when 23 soldiers were killed after two suicide car bombs were detonated in **rth Sinai.
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