CAIRO, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian police killed on Thursday two members of a militant group believed to be loyal to the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group north of Cairo, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The police launched a raid on their hideout in Beheira province, before the gunmen started shooting at the police which led to a fire exchange that left them dead at an apartment they hired in Wady al-Natroun city for making explosive devices.
"A large amount of chemicals used for making explosive devices was seized following the raid," said the statement.
Hasm group, the organization that the two gunmen were loyal to, claimed responsibility for a number of terrorist attacks that killed several policemen in Egypt.
Since March, similar security operations killed at least 40 Hasm members and in the provinces of Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Beheira, Fayoum, Qalioubiya, Minufiya and Ismailia.
Egypt has been fighting against a wave of terror activities that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the military toppled former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and his Brotherhood group.
Terror attacks in Egypt used to be centered in North Sinai before spreading nationwide, with most of them claimed by a Sinai-based group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) militant group.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian military and police have killed hundreds of militants and arrested a similar number of suspects as part of the country's anti-terror war declared by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief then, following Morsi's removal.
