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On 1 August:" The Special Forces raided the house of Salim Sulyman al-Harim, the leader of State of Sinai, in Al-Shaykh Zuwayid. He refused to give himself in and tried to detonate his explosive belt, but the Special Forces shot at him. He was killed with a gun and ammunitions in his possession." |
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Unknown gunmen attacked a policeman's car in Fayoum on Sunday, killing his four-year-old daughter and his friend. |
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Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a policeman standing guard outside a police station in Sharqiya on Tuesday. |
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Ongoingclashes were reportedbetween security forces and militants said to belong to Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (State of Sinai), a North Sinai-based militant group. The number of militants killed by air strikes rose to a dozen, after eight had been reported killed earlier on Tuesday. Five civilians were also killed and nine wounded in Sheikh Zuweid city in the Sinai Peninsula after their house was hit by a stray missile. The attack seems to be accidental, as the security checkpoint was the intended main target. |
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Security forces dismantled six roadsidebombsplanted to target military vehicles in Sheikh Zuweid. |
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A suspect in the Niger embassy attack was killed by security forces. Conflicting reports: his family, who protest his innocence, accuses the police of kidnapping him from his house in Al Ayat and killing him, without any legal reference, and in a situation "where he didn't resist". The Ministry of Interior claims that the accused attacked security forces guarding the Niger Embassy in Giza, which killed one conscript and injured three others and that he fired at the forces trying to arrest him, who fired back killing him. |
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Egyptians staged demonstrations protesting against President Abd-al-Fattah al-Sisi. |
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The Interior Ministry staged araidin Giza province, killing "the leader of a militant cell" which was allegedly behind a 28 July shooting outside the Nigerien embassy in Giza in which a security guard was killed. |
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Policemen killed five suspects in a village called Sanoris in Fayoum province, southwest of Cairo. Their bodies were bloody and disfigured, showing signs of bullet holes and apparent signs of torture, with one man appearing to have a severed arm. The Muslim Brotherhood accused the security forces of killing 5 Muslim Brotherhood members, outside of the law (according to Ikhwanweb) although Channel 1 TV refuted this claim, stating that the MB members fired back at security forces. |
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The Egyptian ministry of interior announced on the morning of 6 August that it had killed a member of the Hazmoon opposition movement, at his apartment in Giza. A security statement published in various Egyptian newspapers admitted that security forces had no cause to shoot at the man. There was no mention of any resistance, exchange of fire, or if the man was armed. |