CAIRO: Five Egyptian police were killed yesterday during a shoot-out with assailants in the northwest of the country, security officials said.
The unidentified men opened fire on a police car carrying an officer and four agents on the coastal highway between second city Alexandria and Marsa Matruh, near the Libyan border.
The policemen returned fire and during the exchange their car overturned and caught fire with all five of them on board, the security officials said.
The bodies of the policemen were charred, the officials said.
Two gunmen were also killed in the clash while the rest fled.
AFP
