REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, CAIRO -- Islamic State (IS/ISIS) militant group said on Saturday in an online message that it was behind an armed attack targeting police officers in Egypt's Giza.
One traffic police officer and a soldier were killed on Saturday morning in the attack targeted their vehicle in Giza on the outskirts of capital Cairo, State-run MENA news agency reported.
A number of gunmen opened fire at their car and fled away, and IS's claim cannot be at the moment independently verified.
The attack came one shortly after two consecutive attacks against hotels in the North African nation.
Late on Friday, some knife-wielding assailants attacked a hotel in Egypt's Red Sea city of Hurghada. Three tourists, a Swedish and two Austrians nationals, suffered minor injuries in the strike.
The health ministry said the wounded tourists suffered knife wounds and were in stable condition.
On Thursday, a group of 15 men attacked a tourist hotel in Giza's Ahram district on Thursday, causing no causalities, for which the Egyptian affiliate of Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility.
Also on Thursday, unknown assailants blew up a main natural gas pipeline near Arish city of Egypt's restive North Sinai province bordering the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Israel, a security source told Xinhua.
The assailants used explosives to remotely blow up the pipeline at Al-Midan area, about 15 km from the entrance of Arish city, the source said, expecting the perpetrators belong to the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (ABM) militant group, which has changed its name to "Sinai State" and declared loyalty to the regional IS militant group.
Egypt has been suffering growing anti-government terrorist attacks that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the ouster of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule.
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