CAIRO: Gunmen shot dead an Egyptian police colonel and a conscript west of Cairo as they travelled
to work on Saturday, the interior ministry said.
According to the details, the colonel, a traffic police district commander, and the conscript, who was driving, died in their car after coming under fire by the unknown assailants, the ministry said.
Islamic State group militants have claimed credit in the past for similar attacks in the capital and the Sinai Peninsula, where their insurgency is based.
