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Thomson Reuters
Posted: Oct 21, 2017 5:34 AM ET
Last Updated: Oct 21, 2017 5:34 AM ET
At least 52 Egyptian police and conscripts were killed and six more wounded in a gun battle on Friday during a raid on a suspected militant hideout in the western desert, three security sources said on Saturday.
Sources had said late on Friday at least 30 police were killed. Egypt is battling an Islamist insurgency concentrated in the Sinai peninsula from two main groups, including an affiliate of the group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which has killed hundreds of security forces since 2013.
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