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Monday 10 August 2015 - 09:11

Senior Egyptian police officer gunned down in Suez

Story Code : 478980
The file photo of Egyptian security forces outside Cairo’s police academy
The file photo of Egyptian security forces outside Cairo’s police academy
The deputy head of Feisal Police Station in Suez, identified as Walid El-Sadek, was killed on Sunday near Badr market in Salam City neighborhood during an exchange of fire with the two gunmen, who also injured a police cadet in the armed clash.
 
The two gunmen opened fire on the officers from the Third Field Army deployed in the market, Egyptian military spokesman Mohamed Samir stated in a Facebook post as cited in a report by the local Ahram Online news outlet.
 
According to the report, the soldiers targeted by the assailants reacted instantly, killing one of the gunmen while the other fled the scene and remains at large. Samir further identified the injured officer as Mohamed Mahmoud, adding that he was transferred to a military hospital.
 
Earlier on Sunday, a roadside blast in the restive city of el-Arish in North Sinai killed an Egyptian police captain and a cadet and injured three other officers as they were traveling in an armored vehicle, according to an Interior Ministry statement.
 
The developments came as eight more jailed supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi were sentenced to death by an Egyptian court in the city of Minya.
 
The criminal court in Minya issued preliminary death sentences against the eight for their alleged role in killing two security personnel and storming the Samalout police station in the Egyptian city of Minya following the breaking up of two pro-Morsi protest sit-ins in Cairo in August 2013.
 
Morsi himself and hundreds of his supporters have received death sentences. His ouster came in 2013 and was led by then army chief and now President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
 
The government prosecutor in Minya also accused 119 defendants to a range of charges, including murder, attempted murder, as well as storming and destroying public properties.
 
A Minya criminal court issued a preliminary death sentence in March 2014 to 529 Morsi supporters on charges of murdering Mostafa El-Attar, the deputy commander of the Matay district police station in Minya, in what was regarded as the largest mass death sentences issued in the history of Egyptian courts.
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