Ten suspected extremist militants were killed and two arrested in police raids across Egypt as they hunted down the perpetrators of a deadly car bomb attack, the interior ministry said Thursday (June 28th).
It said those targeted were members of the extremist group Hasm, AFP reported.
They were allegedly involved in a March 24th car bombing on the eve of elections targeting a security chief for Alexandria in northern Egypt that killed two policemen.
Six militants were killed and a weapons cache unearthed as security forces raided a hideout in Beheira province, northwest of Cairo, the ministry said.
It said a suspect was arrested in a residential apartment in Alexandria where arms and explosives were also seized.
A shootout in Assiut province, south of Cairo, left four other suspects dead, it said, adding that a Hasm member who had allegedly acquired the car used in the Alexandria attack was also arrested.
The ministry's statement did not specify when the raids and arrests took place.
