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07-15-2017, 03:51 PM
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Five Egypt police shot dead near capital
CAIRO: Assailants killed Five Egyptian policemen in a shooting south of Cairo on Friday, in the latest of a ****** of attacks targeting the country´s security forces, the interior ministry said.
The ministry said three gunmen opened fire on a police car and then fled, killing a **n-commissioned ******r, three conscripts and a police employee. The attack took place near Badrasheen, a town some 20 kilometres from Cairo, where militants have also targeted police in the past. There was ** immediate claim of responsibility. The killings came as police and the army said they are closing in on militants and Jihadists following a spate of deadly attacks in the Nile Valley and the Sinai Peninsula. Egypt has struggled to quell the Islamic State Jihadist group based in the Sinai Peninsula and smaller militant groups in the mainland since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in 2013 and *****ed down on his supporters. IS Jihadists killed at least 21 soldiers in restive **rth Sinai on July 7, the same day as the militant Hasam group claimed responsibility for shooting dead an ******r with Egypt´s secret police in an attack **rth of Cairo. The interior ministry said a day later that it had killed 14 alleged IS members in a raid on a training camp in the eastern province of Ismailiya. Earlier this week, the ministry said police had killed six IS militants in a shootout in southern Egypt. While smaller groups like Hasam have mostly targeted policemen and government officials, IS has also attacked foreign tourists and Egypt´s Coptic Christian mi**rity. Dozens of Christians have been killed in church bombings and shootings since last December in attacks claimed by IS. Two church bombings in April prompted the government to declare emergency law, which expands the police´s powers of arrests and can lead to expedited trials. On Thursday, Christian churches said they were suspending some activities such as conferences and religious trips for three weeks over security concerns. In Sinai, Jihadists who pledged allegiance to IS in **vember 2014 have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers. أكثر... 
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