Militants 'opened fire' on security forces at a checkpoint on the southern part of the city's ring road, leaving one officer wounded and three attackers dead.
CAIRO - An Egyptian police officer was wounded and seven suspected militants were killed on Thursday in a firefight and raid in the capital Cairo, the interior ministry said.
"The militants driving a pick-up truck disguised in electricians' work clothes were planning a hostile act planting a bomb in Giza," the statement said.Checkpoints had been set up in response to intelligence that militants "had been planning a series of attacks with the aim of sowing chaos".Four other suspected militants were killed in a raid on an apartment in the southern outskirts of Cairo, where bomb-making material and weapons were found, the interior ministry said.
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