Egypt’s Interior Ministry on Saturday announced that six terrorists were killed in a shootout with security forces in a mountainous area near the Assiut-Sohag Road in the Western Desert at Upper Egypt’s Geheina city in Sohag governorate. The ministry said in a statement that combing operations in remote areas revealed that a group of fleeing terrorists were hiding in one of the mountainous areas near the Assiut-Sohag Road. According to the Ministry’s statement, the different bodies of the Interior Ministry, including the National Security Agency, participated in the operation after coordination with the Supreme State Security Prosecution to raid the area at dawn on Saturday. When the security forces started to siege the area, the terrorists opened fire on the security forces and were wiped out. Legal action has been taken, and the Supreme State Security Prosecution took over the case for further investigations.

Source: Egypt Independent January 12, 2019 13:18 UTC