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Egyptian police said on Friday they had killed nine armed Muslim Brotherhood members planningattacksto coincide with Eid al-Adha. The nine were hiding out at a poultry farm west of Cairo and were killed after they opened fire when police came to arrest them. The police found a bomb and automatic weapons in the house where the militants were killed in Ausim, a farming area about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the Egyptian capital. Three officers and two policemen were wounded in the confrontation. Contradictory reports over the number of arrests and local sources reported that the bodies were found with severe injuries and some had been moved and altered. |
