An Egyptian police raid on an apartment in
Cairo killed nine wanted men including
senior Muslim Brotherhood leader Naser
al-Houfi on Wednseday ,security official
and the brotherhood said.,
The raid the 6th of October district came
as security forces were engaged in fierce
fighting with Islamic state group jihadists
in the Sinai Peninsula,in which at least
70 soldiers and civilians have been killed.
Security officials said the nine "terrorists
killed in the capital were wanted for
vandalism and violence.,
When police went to arrest them,the militants
opened fire and the nine were killed in the
ensuing gun battle,a security official said.
But the Muslim Brotherhood said the dead
were leaders from the blacklist Islamist
movement,Egyptian police assassinates nine
Muslim Brotherhood leaders during a meeting
to discuss support to families of (political)
detainees/martyrs "it said on Twitter in English,
A lawyer for the Brotherhood said the dead
included Naser al-Houfi a former parliamentarian
from the Islamist group .
In another tweet ,the Brotherhood said the dead
included "Abdul Fattah Ibrahim ,head of the
commitee for supporting families of political
detainees and martyrs"
The authorities designated the Brotherhood as
"terrorist group"after the ouster of president
Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 by then army
chief and now President Abdel Fattah al Sisi
AFP
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