Two policemen, Abdel Hamid Ahmed and Sherif Abdel Latif, were injured by gunfire from unknown assailants in Kafr al-Sheikh on Monday. They were taken to hospital in serious condition.
The sheriff of the Riyadh Police Station in Kafr al-Sheikh said that when police forces went to check a communique about an unknown elements burning tires on the Kafr al-Sheikh-Baltim highway, they were shot at by at least two individuals who fled to the plantations on the side of the road.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
