CAIRO: A policeman was killed and another seriously wounded in northern Egypt yesterday when gunmen in a parked car fired at patrolling officers, a security official said.
The two policemen were on patrol in the Nile Delta province of Gharbiya when they approached a car parked at the side of a road, the official said. The car’s occupants then opened fire on the officers before escaping.
Jihadist groups have regularly launched attacks on police and soldiers since the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July last year by former army chief Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, now president of Egypt.
AFP
