FILE PHOTO: People stand in front of security tower outside Cairo's Tora prison, in Cairo, Egypt June 17, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
CAIRO (Reuters) - Three Egyptian policemen were killed while preventing four Islamist militants on death row fleeing a Cairo prison on Wednesday, the interior ministry said.
All four militants were killed in the failed attempt to escape from Tora prison, it added in a statement.
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