(MENAFN) On Sunday, Egyptian Ministry of Interior stated that Egyptian police forces murdered a terrorist group during a shootout conducted in the nation's restive North Sinai Province.
The ministry emphasized in a statement that three officers and one policeman sustained wounds during the exchange of fire.
The national security sector got information that terrorist elements were appearing in the Gilbana area of North Sinai and were organizing and planning a sequence of attacks against the armed forces and police, according to the statement.
The ministry affirmed that police forces found the terrorists inside a pickup truck, adding that the terrorists fired heavily at the police once they understood they were firmly surrounded.
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