Egypt's Interior Ministry said Friday that one takfiri and three of his companions were killed on Thursday nightin Giza, in Bani Magdol area, in an exchange of fire with security forces. The forces had raided a meeting of the suspects while they were planning hostile action against the state.
A statement from the ministry said the main suspect, called Sameh Farahat, had been holding meetings at this same location to plan for a large-scale hostile action during the upcoming period.
Security sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the suspects were members of "Islamic State" (IS) militant group, and that they are implicated in 8 previous terrorist attacks in which 12 policemen were killed since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi. The cell had also been planning the assassination judges and other police officers.
The sources added that a force of 13 officers, in two teams, targeted the terrorist elements from two different sides during the raid; and that they answered back with a barrage of bullets which surprised the troops. The force then responded to the source of the fire, and the exchange continued for 30 minutes, killing four of the suspects.
Investigations revealed that the suspected terrorists have already been convicted in several cases of terror and violence, including the assassination of police officers and judges in Giza and Cairo; and that they received military training in Syria during the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood, at the hands of takfiris there.
