3 Muslim Brotherhood, Ansar Bait al Maqdis terrorists killed in Fayyoum, Cairo

Egypt's interior ministry on Saturday said two Muslim Brhotherhhod terrorists and a member of the so called "Ansar Bait al Maqdis" terrorist organization were killed in a fire exchange with security forces in Fayyoum and a Cairo suburb.

In a statement, the ministry said that the two MB members were involved in forming a terrorist cell in Fayyoum and providing several hotbeds to hide the group's members and manufacturing explosive devices to be used in carrying out terrorist attacks.

The security forces raided their hotbed at a farm in Tamiya town early on Friday, but they opened their fire on the forces who find found themselves compelled to exchange fire with the terrorists, the statement read.

Two firearms and amounts of ammunition were found in their possession, the statement said.

The interior ministry said that the two dead were accused of killing the daughter and a friend of a police officer, assassinating a non-commissioned officer, opening fire on three police vehicles, Snurs court building and two vehicles carrying butane-gas cylinders and fuel.

The ministry added that the two dead were also accused of destroying ten electricity transformers and storming a police station.

Also, the statement said that a terrorist of the so-called "Ansar Bait al Maqdis" was killed after exchanging fire with security forces who deployed checkpoints to arrest him in Cairo suburb of May 15.

The statement added that an automatic rifle and amounts of ammunition were found in his possession.

The ministry accused the dead of manufacturing explosive devices used by the terrorist organization in their recent operations.

Source: MENA