Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Egypt: Senior Muslim Brotherhood Leader Killed in Shootout

The Muslim Brotherhood claims he was arrested, taken into custody, suggesting he was killed after being taken into custody.
(AP) Egypt's security forces killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader and another member of the outlawed Islamist group in an overnight shootout at a Cairo apartment, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.

A ministry statement carried by the state MENA news agency said 61-year-old Mohammed Kamal, a physician by profession, was killed along with Yasser Shahata Ali Ragab in an exchange of gunfire as police tried to arrest the two late on Monday night.

But a Brotherhood statement posted on its official website shortly after reports of the shootout surfaced said Kamal had been arrested by police, suggesting he was killed after being taken into custody.

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