CAIRO (Reuters) - At least eight policemen were killed and three wounded in an attack by Islamist militants on a security checkpoint in Egypt's New Valley province in the Western Desert, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
State television said the attack took place at around 8.15 p.m. in the Naqb checkpoint more that 600 kilometres (370 miles) southwest of Cairo.
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