The senior detective in the Daqahliya governorate city of Sherbin has died of injuries sustained in a gun attack that security officials described as a "terrorist incident", Ahram Online reported Monday (June 12th).
Lt. Col. Ahmed Hussein's vehicle was attacked at dawn Monday, with militants opening fire on the Mansoura-Damietta Road, north-east Cairo.
The Daqahliya Security Directorate said the gun attack was a "terrorist incident".
The chief detective and his driver were transferred to Mansoura emergency hospital. The police officer was announced dead five hours after the attack, while the driver is still undergoing treatment, according to the governorate's ambulance department.
Security troops are combing the area in search of the gunmen, according to security officials.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s interior ministry raised the national security alert level on Saturday in light of the deteriorated security situation in the region, Egyptian media reported.
