3 Egyptian policemen were killed in an attack on a security checkpoint in the city of Ismailia

Three police officers were killed and four people, including a police officer, were injured in a suspected terrorist attack that targeted a security checkpoint in the city of Ismailia (northeast of the Egyptian capital), according to security and medical sources.

Security sources said that two cars approached the security checkpoint in the residential neighborhood of Al-Salam, and two people got out of them, each carrying an automatic weapon.

Security sources believe that the attack is a "terrorist act", the first of its kind in an Egyptian city in several years, with the exception of North Sinai, where the Egyptian branch of the "ISIS" organization is active.

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