By AFPMore by this AuthorCAIROEgyptian police shot dead two members of the Muslim Brotherhood, one of them a senior leader of the outlawed Islamist group, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry charged that Mohamed Kamal headed the military wing of the movement of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, although the group has always denied having one. It said that he and fellow Brotherhood member Yasser Shehata were killed in a firefight when police raided their hideout in the southeast of the capital late on Monday. The ministry alleged that Kamal had founded the Brotherhood's military wing after the army's overthrow of Morsi in 2013. The Brotherhood and its supporters have been subjected to a deadly crackdown since Morsi's ouster but it denied taking up arms in response.

Source: Daily Nation October 04, 2016 15:00 UTC