Egypt kills 6 suspected militants in shootout

Egyptian security forces have killed six suspected militants sympathetic to Daesh in a shootout in the southern province of Assiut, an Interior Ministry said today.

A ministry statement said security forces were carrying out a raid on the group’s apartment in Assiut when a firefight ensued in which all six militants were killed. It did not say when the incident took place.

The apartment was “an organisational base where [the group] was preparing to carry

out a series of terrorist operations in the provinces,” the statement said.

On Friday, Egypt saw one of the worst attacks on its security forces in years when 23 soldiers were killed after two suicide car bombs were detonated in North Sinai.