Insight - In Egypt, flickers of a new Islamist insurgency


  • World
  • Tuesday, 20 Aug 2013

CAIRO/MINYA PROVINCE (Reuters) - Gunmen who fired rocket-propelled grenades at a police station near Cairo and slit an officer's throat daubed the wall with a warning before they left: "This is the penalty for the oppressors."

The masked assailants attacked a few hours after the security forces began breaking up protest camps set up by supporters of deposed President Mohamed Mursi in an operation last Wednesday that killed hundreds of people.

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