Beni Suef police arrested four suspects for allegedly attacking Saft al-Sharqiya security forces in an ambush that left five policemen dead on Thursday.
Preliminary investigations said that the perpetrators were four individuals and that they lived in a village at al-Wasta town.
Authorities said that one of them was a teacher and the other worked at an NGO for reciting Quran.
The four criminals were allegedly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and allegedly received one million pounds to commit the crime.
Allegedly LE800,000 were shared by two suspects, with the remainder of the money was given to the other two.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
