“A cell of soldiers of the caliphate managed to attack an Egyptian police roadblock... with a machine gun,” the terrorist group’s Amaq news agency said.

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Three Egyptian policemen were killed in the attack, the first of its kind in nearly three years in mainland Egypt, which has largely been spared the deadly insurgency in the nearby Sinai peninsula.

In the past few years, attacks against Egyptian security forces have been concentrated in the Sinai, where terrorists affiliated with ISIS operate.

Source: Al Arabiya