Al-Arabiya correspondent in Cairo reported on Friday that 16 security forces personnel were killed in clashes with militants in Giza, southwest Cairo.
According to news agencies, quoting security sources, the 16 police officers were killed in a shoot-out on Friday during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in Egypt’s Western desert.
The sources said authorities were following a lead to an apartment thought to house eight suspected members of Hasm, a group which has claimed several attacks around the capital targeting judges and policemen since last year.
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Update: At Least Sixteen Police Officers Killed in Shoot-Out in Egypt's Western Desert: Security Sources (US News and World Report/Reuters)
WNU Editor: The Western media focus is on Egypt's war against militants in Sinai, but today's heavy death toll from a police raid clearly indicates (again) that Egypt's terror problem is deeply rooted within the country itself.
2 comments:
Vacation to Egypt anyone?
_______ need to be cleaned as if they were stalls.
Ravens need to be fed.
I was in Hurghada on weekation before the revolution and it was awful already then. Crappy food, unpleasant people and Cairo was so polluted.
The only good thing was the pyramids.
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