Islamist gunmen kill 9 policemen in Egypt

May 08, 2016 11:44

In a revenge attack, Islamist gunmen today shot dead at least nine plainclothed policemen, including an officer, in southern Egypt's Helwan district.

The gunmen travelling in a truck stopped a microbus carrying the policemen in Omar Ibn Abdel Aziz street and sprayed it with bullets before fleeing from the scene, a security source said. Four armed terrorists got out of the truck and opened fire on the police microbus, according to a statement by the Ministry of Interior. Security forces have rushed to the place of the incident and are currently searching for the attackers, it said.

Islamist group Shabab el-Mokawma el-Shabia (public resistance) has claimed responsibility for the attack.

In a statement published on its Facebook page, the group said the attack was carried out in memory of Rabaa victims (who were killed during the dispersal of the Muslim Brotherhood's Rabaa sit-in in August 2013 by police).

The attack came to commemorate 1000 days of the attack, it said.

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