16 policemen killed in Egypt shootout with 交戦的なs
An Egyptian armoured 乗り物 is seen on the road to the Bahariya oasis after a deadly shootout between police and 交戦的なs
Sixteen Egyptian policemen were killed in a shootout with 交戦的なs on the road between Cairo and the Bahariya oasis in the Western 砂漠, the 内部の 省 said Saturday, in a rare ゆらめく-up outside the Sinai 半島.
Funerals were held in several 州s for those killed, whose 棺s were wrapped in Egyptian 旗s.
The 公式の／役人 （死傷者）数 from the 内部の 省 was lower than a 人物／姿／数字 given earlier by 安全 and 医療の sources of at least 35 Egyptian police officers killed in the 衝突／不一致s which began on Friday night.
Egyptians pray before the 棺 of a policeman killed in 衝突／不一致s with 交戦的なs on the road to the Bahariya oasis, at a funeral in Cairo on October 21
The 省 said it had sent police to the area, いっそう少なく than 200 kilometres (125 miles) 南西 of Cairo, after learning that 交戦的なs were there "hiding, training, and 準備するing to carry out テロリスト operatio ns".
As the 軍隊s approached, the 交戦的なs opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃 with 激しい 武器s, 誘発する／引き起こすing a shootout that lasted for several hours and also left 13 police officers 負傷させるd and one 行方不明の, the 省 said.
There has not yet been a （人命などを）奪う，主張する of 責任／義務. A 偽の （人命などを）奪う，主張する in the 指名する of the small 極端論者 group Hasam, 報告（する）／憶測d by 多重の 地元の マスコミ, had spread on social マスコミ soon after the shootout.
当局 are fighting the Egyptian 支店 of the Islamic 明言する／公表する group, which has 増加するd its attacks 殺人，大当り hundred of 兵士s and police in the north of the Sinai 半島, more than 500 kilometres (300 miles) away from the 最新の 暴力／激しさ.
- Armoured 乗り物s -
On Saturday armoured 乗り物s were seen parked on the road の近くに to where the 出来事/事件 took place along with about 15 救急車s.
The 省 said that 15 交戦的なs were killed as 安全 軍隊s chased them into the 砂漠 after the 衝突／不一致s, 追加するing that the search for 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs was continuing.
The public 検察官，検事 has ordered the 明言する／公表する 安全 起訴 to start an 調査 into the 出来事/事件, an 公式の／役人 said.
によれば a source の近くに to the 安全 services, the police 軍用車隊 was 攻撃する，衝突する by ロケット／急騰する 解雇する／砲火／射撃. The 攻撃者s also used 爆発性の 装置s.
大統領 Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was scheduled Saturday to …に出席する events in the northern town of El Alamein on Egypt's Mediterranean coast to 示す the 75th 周年記念日 of the pivotal 連合した World War II victory in the 戦う／戦い of El Alamein.
But an AFP reporter did not see the strongman leader at an open-空気／公表する 儀式 伴う／関わるing foreign 高官s, and his office said he had cancelled his 参加 in a number of other 約束／交戦s.
Sisi's office, though, said he visited El Alamein 軍の Museum with some of the 高官s, and gave a speech 祝う／追悼するing the 戦う／戦い and 強調する／ストレスing the Middle East "is 直面するing 前例のない crises"
Since the army in 2013 除去するd elected Islamist 大統領，／社長 Mohamed Morsi of the イスラム教徒 Bro therhood, 極端論者 groups have 増加するd their attacks on the 軍の and police.
激しい非難s of the 最新の attack （機の）カム in from the Middle East and Europe, with フラン -- where Sisi is 予定 to visit next week -- 誓約（する）ing 団結 after the losses for Egypt's 安全 軍隊 in "the fight against テロ行為".
The イスラム教徒 Brotherhood, once Egypt's largest 対立 movement, has long 否定するd 関与 in the attacks on the 当局.
Morsi was elected Egypt's first 非軍事の 大統領，／社長 in 2012, but the army overthrew him a year later に引き続いて 集まり 抗議するs against the Islamist's 意見の不一致を生じる 支配する.
- Competing wings -
Since then, an 広範囲にわたる 厳重取締 on the group has left it in 混乱 with competing wings that have 同意しないd on whether to 訴える手段／行楽地 to 暴力／激しさ, after police bloodily 抑えるd their 抗議するs.
分析家s say a section of the Brotherhood has encouraged 武装した 強襲，強姦s against the police.
Hasam has （人命などを）奪う，主張するd 多重の attacks since 2016 on police, 公式の／役人s and 裁判官s in Cairo.
Earlier this month, Sisi 延長するd for a second time a 明言する／公表する of 緊急 first 宣言するd after 爆破s （人命などを）奪う，主張するd by IS in two churches that killed at least 45 people in April.
