Egypt kills two Islamist militants

Egyptian forces shot dead two militants from the Hasam group, the government said Friday, after the Islamist group claimed to have carried a deadly attack on police. The militants were killed in a shootout in Fayoum province, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Cairo, as the security forces tried to arrest them at a hideout, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Hasam, an extremist movement the government accuses of links to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, said it targeted a police convoy in the province on Thursday, killing one officer and wounding three others.