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05-09-2016, 08:50 AM
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Gunmen kill eight police in Egypt *
Gunmen killed eight plainclothes police on the southern outskirts of Cairo overnight, the Egyptian interior ministry said, in an assault claimed by Daesh militants.
The four attackers pulled alongside in a pick-up truck and sprayed a police vehicle with automatic ******* fire before fleeing, the ministry said on Sunday. The Gunmen wore masks, residents in Helwan, an industrial area on the edge of the capital, told Reuters. Egypt's government is facing an insurgency that has killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen, mostly in **rthern Sinai, since mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted President Mohamed Mursi following mass protests. Daesh's Egyptian affiliate, which calls itself Sinai Province, mainly operates out of the **rthern Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel, the Gaza Strip and the Suez Canal. Militants have also occasionally targeted security forces and planted bombs in Cairo and other areas. In an Arabic-language statement, Daesh said the Helwan attack was part of its Abi Ali Al-Anbari campaign, which has seen the group carry out a ****** of bombings and other attacks in Iraq. It was **t clear how or why Egypt was linked to the Iraqi campaign. The statement also said the attack was aimed at avenging women held in Egyptian jails, but gave ** details. أكثر... 
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