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Three Egyptian policemen, four militants killed in prison break attempt

Three Egyptian policemen, four militants killed in prison break attempt

THREE Egyptian policemen were killed while preventing four Islamist militants on death row fleeing a Cairo prison, the interior ministry said. All four militants were killed in the failed attempt to escape from Tora prison, it added in a statement. Three of the prisoners named in the statement were convicted in 2018 with establishing and joining a militant group called Ansar al-Sharia and killing at least 10 policemen in a series of attacks between August 2013 and May 2014. The fourth was convicted in 2018 of killing a Christian doctor, local newspapers said. The interior ministry statement did not give…
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