Egypt: Eight security personnel killed in terror attack

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Cairo/ 17 January 2017. At least eight security personnel were killed and three others got injured in a terror attack on a checkpoint in Egypt's New Valley Governorate, some 600 km south of Cairo.

According to the sources, the statement said that the armed forces have reached the scene and killed two attackers while in chase of others.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

Anti-security attacks are common in Egypt after the ouster of the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi by the army in 2013. (With IANS inputs)