Military funeral held for eight policemen killed in Cairo's Helwan
Egyptian police and civilians gather around a
bullet ridden microbus in the south Cairo neighborhood of Helwan, Sunday, May
8, 2016 (AP)
A military funeral was held in New Cairo’s
police academy on Sunday afternoon for eight policemen gunned down by unknown
assailants in the capital's southern district of Helwan.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, four
individuals, who were waiting in a mini-van, opened fire on a police patrol
resulting in the deaths of all eight officers, state news agency MENA reported.
The slain policemen included seven low-ranking
policemen and a junior police officer.
The assailants are still at large.
Sunday's deadly assault on the patrol was one
of the largest attacks on security forces in the capital in months.
The south Cairo prosecution said in a statement
it had examined the scene of the crime, questioned 10 eyewitnesses and
impounded 120 bullet shells from the site.
The officers' bodies were transported from the
scene to the Zeinhom morgue to undergo an autopsy at the hands of medical
examiners.
Shortly thereafter, families of the slain
officers arrived outside the morgue to retrieve the victims' bodies to prepare
them for burial.
The prosecution has yet to issue a full report
on the incident.
Name: Mona Mohamed Khalil
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A military funeral was held in New Cairo’s police academy on Sunday afternoon for eight policemen gunned down by unknown assailants in the capital's southern district of Helwan.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, four individuals, who were waiting in a mini-van, opened fire on a police patrol resulting in the deaths of all eight officers, state news agency MENA reported.
The slain policemen included seven low-ranking policemen and a junior police officer.
The assailants are still at large.
The south Cairo prosecution said in a statement it had examined the scene of the crime, questioned 10 eyewitnesses and impounded 120 bullet shells from the site.
Shortly thereafter, families of the slain officers arrived outside the morgue to retrieve the victims' bodies to prepare them for burial.
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