The Borneo Post

Egypt police kill 6 militants in shootout

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CAIRO: Egyptian police killed six suspected Islamist militants in a shootout early Saturday in the country’s south, the interior ministry said.

The clashes broke out during a police raid on a militant hideout in a mountainou­s area on the edge of the southern province of Sohag, some 460 kilometres south of Cairo, the ministry said in a statement.

Police seized weapons and ammunition, it added.

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