Police killed three alleged members of the local militant Hasm Movement group, the Ministry of Interior said Monday. This came amid a gunfire exchange between the suspects and police forces chasing them, the ministry explained. The statement comes one day after the group published its own statement on Twitter, claiming to have targeted the Myanmar embassy in Cairo’s Zamalek district. Meanwhile, the ministry said Monday’s killed suspects who were planning attacks soon were among the “leading, most important” group members. Police carried several similar raids against group members, saying it targeted them based on information collected by the National Security body and after obtaining prosecution authorities’ permission to arrest them, but that the suspects opened fire on police.

Source: Daily News Egypt October 02, 2017 16:07 UTC