Egypt: Shoot out sees 11 terrorists killed by Egyptian police.

(Cairo) The Egyptian interior ministry has reported that eleven terrorists were killed on Wednesday during a shootout with police in the south of the country. A police raid on a desert cave in the Western Desert near the Farafra depression saw a shootout between the security forces and the armed terrorists

The ministry stated that operations in the remote area uncovered a armed group was using a mountain canyon as cover to hide from security monitoring, adding that they were preparing to receive newly recruited elements to train them to use weapons and make explosive devices before carrying out attacks. A raid which kicked off at dawn, was met by gunfire, unfortunately for the terrorists the Police were better armed.