Egypt's Interior Ministry said Thursday that security forces have killed seven members of a militant group with suspected links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood in two Cairo shootouts.
The ministry said three militants were killed on a highway known as Ring Road in Cairo's district of Giza. They had disguised themselves as electricity workers to plant explosives, but were killed in an exchange of fire after their truck was intercepted, a statement said.
The remaining four were killed in a firefight when police raided their hideout in the Egyptian capital's suburb of Sixth of October.
Weapons and ammunition were found among the militants' possession, the statement said.
A police officer was wounded, it added.
The suspects were not identified but the ministry said they were members of the Hasm group, which emerged in 2016 and has claimed several attacks on security forces.
Egypt accuses the group of being a militant wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
