The Interior Ministry's media office mourned a policeman who was killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in Gharbiya.
The spokesperson said Galal Suleiman al-Riasty was killed when his force was on its way back from a security raid targeting outlaws. He was shot by unknown assailants in a drive-by shooting.
Another policeman was also injured in the attack.
Police and army forces have been increasingly targeted with bloody attacks since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsy.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
