Gunmen kill eight police officials in southwest Egypt

Author: Web Desk

CAIRO: Gunmen on Monday killed eight police officials in an attack on a checkpoint in El Wadi El Gedid province in southwest Egypt.

In a statement, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior said that two of the attackers were killed when security forces retaliated, while three security personnel were injured.

The statement said that the attack took place on Al Naqab checkpoint around 80 kilometres from El Kharga city.

Militants in Egypt have killed countless security officials since the overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013. Majority of the attacks have occurred in the Sinai Peninsula and Cairo. Many attacks are claimed by the Daesh group, such as the car bomb assault on January 10 in the Sinai that killed eight people and the church bombing on December 11 that killed 28 Christian Copts.

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