Egyptian police have killed two men suspected of involvement in violence against the state, state news agency MENA reported late Monday.
A security source told MENA that police had obtained information that two members of the Islamist militant group Ajnad Misr [Soldiers of Egypt] were present in an apartment on Faisal Street, Giza.
MENA reported that the “terrorists” opened fire on officers upon their arrival at the apartment, "prompting police to shoot [the two men] dead.”
Ajnad Misr has claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks against police in Cairo, including an explosion near the Ittihadiya presidential palace in June 2014 that killed two police officers, and a blast outside the foreign ministry in September of the same year that also left two policemen dead.
Police also announced killing a leader of the group in April, Hammam Mohamed Attiyah, also in a gunfight at an apartment in Cairo.
Egypt's military and police have been intensifying their fight against an Islamist militant insurgency that was concentrated in Sinai, but has also spread to Cairo and other governorates.
Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed, while the army says it has killed and arrested hundreds of militants. Civilians have also been caught in the violence.
