Egypt shooting: 5 policemen killed by masked gunmen
- 10 years ago
Originally published on January 23, 2014
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Five policemen were killed and two were wounded in an attack on a checkpoint in Egypt on Thursday (January 23).
Egypt's Interior Ministry said the attack was carried out by masked men riding two motorcycles on a police checkpoint in the el-Wassta district in the southern province of Bani Suef, according to Reuters and the Washington Post.
Reuters quoted from a ministry statement which said that the gunmen "opened fire heavily on the forces at the checkpoint".
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Scores of policemen and soldiers have been killed in bombing and shootings since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was deposed by the army last July. The Egyptian government has declared itself to be in a "war on terror" against Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, which was declared a terrorist group on December 25.
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Five policemen were killed and two were wounded in an attack on a checkpoint in Egypt on Thursday (January 23).
Egypt's Interior Ministry said the attack was carried out by masked men riding two motorcycles on a police checkpoint in the el-Wassta district in the southern province of Bani Suef, according to Reuters and the Washington Post.
Reuters quoted from a ministry statement which said that the gunmen "opened fire heavily on the forces at the checkpoint".
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Scores of policemen and soldiers have been killed in bombing and shootings since Islamist President Mohamed Mursi was deposed by the army last July. The Egyptian government has declared itself to be in a "war on terror" against Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, which was declared a terrorist group on December 25.
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