Egypt's official news agency says troops backed by helicopters have 
surrounded a town outside Cairo known to be an Islamist stronghold after
 exchanging fire with suspected militants who killed a senior police 
officer.
MENA says Gen. Nabil Farag, and aide to the police chief of the city of 
Giza, was killed when militants opened fire on security forces deployed 
early Thursday to the town of Kerdasa to drive off suspected Islamic 
militants. It said "terrorists and criminal elements" were responsible.
Kerdasa witnessed a brutal assault on security forces last month when 
heavily armed suspected supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi 
killed 15 police officers and mutilated their bodies. The attack 
appeared to be in retaliation for security forces violent crackdown on 
pro-Morsi protest camps, where hundreds of people were killed.
 
 
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