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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