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Egyptian Police Officers Killed In Cairo Shooting

Egyptian Police Officers Killed In Cairo Shooting
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No responsibility claim for incident in busy Cairo district, the latest in a long line of attacks on security forces.

Egyptian Police Officers Killed In Cairo Shooting

Three Egyptian police officers were killed in a drive-by-shooting in Cairo by men armed with machineguns, according to the country's interior ministry.

Two cars approached a police patrol in the busy neighborhood of Nasr City late on Monday before opening fire at the officers. Five others were wounded in the incident.

The interior ministry did not specify how many assailants were involved and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Egypt is currently battling several armed groups mainly concentrated in the Sinai Peninsula following the 2013 military coup that toppled Mohamed Morsi, the country's first democratically elected president.

Field Marshal turned President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has since overseen a crackdown on opposition in which hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been killed and thousands, including Morsi, jailed or sentenced to death.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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