Militant group claims assassination of Egyptian policeman


  • World
  • Saturday, 08 Oct 2016

CAIRO (Reuters) - A new Egyptian militant group, the Hasam Movement, on Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of a policeman in the country's north.

Gunmen shot Gamal al-Deeb, a policeman working with the Homeland Security agency, eight times outside his home in the northern Beheira province shortly after midnight, the interior ministry said. He died of a bullet to the head.

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