The Egyptian Interior Ministry announced it had successfully thwarted a terrorist plot led by the Hasm movement, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Its forces succeeded in eliminating two terrorists, one of whom Hasm had illegally brought into the country to carry out hostile acts against state institutions.
The ministry said in a statement that it had received information indicating that leaders of the Hasm movement, the armed wing of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood, were planning to revive their activities after fleeing to turkey.
They sought to carry out attacks targeting security and economic facilities.
The statement explained that the plot was planned by five of the movement’s leaders, who have been sentenced in various terrorism cases to various sentences. It continued that the movement’s leaders pushed one of the movement’s fugitive members from a border country, where he had previously received advanced military training, to infiltrate the country illegally.
The statement indicated that this coincided with the movement’s release of a video, spread online, showing its members training in a desert area of a neighboring country and threatening to carry out terrorist operations in Egypt.
The ministry stated that Ahmed Mohamed Abdel-Razek Ahmed Ghoneim, a member of the terrorist movement, had been tracked into the country.
Ghoneim had been convicted in several terrorism cases, including a death sentence for targeting security guards in Sharqiya, a life imprisonment for attempting to target the presidential plane, and the assassination of Lieutenant Colonel Maged Abdel-Razek, an officer at Nozha Police Station.
Ghoneim was tracked down as he illegally entered the country via desert routes, and used an apartment in Bulaq al-Dakrour area in Giza as his hideout.
He was planning to carry out the terrorist plot in collaboration with Ehab Abdel-Latif Mohamed Abdel-Qader, a member of the movement who is wanted for attempted attacks on several high-profile figures.
Following permission from the Supreme State Security Prosecution, a raid was conducted on the hideout of the terrorists. The terrorists began firing randomly at the forces and the area surrounding the property, prompting a counter-terrorism operation.
The exchange of fire resulted in their deaths, as well as the death of a citizen who happened to be passing by, who succumbed to his injuries as a result of the terrorists’ indiscriminate gunfire.
A force officer was also injured while attempting to rescue the citizen.
The Supreme State Security Prosecution was notified and is conducting investigations.
The Interior Ministry affirms its continued efforts to fight back the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group and its supporters, which aim to undermine Egypt’s security and stability.
