{"id":21474,"date":"2015-11-28T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T08:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egypt-police-killed-in-drive-by-shooting-south-of\/"},"modified":"2015-11-28T09:13:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T09:13:01","slug":"egypt-police-killed-in-drive-by-shooting-south-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egypt-police-killed-in-drive-by-shooting-south-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt police killed in drive-by shooting south of Cairo"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Four Egyptian police have been killed in a drive-by shooting, security officials say.}<\/p>\n

The shooting happened in the Saqqara area, some 35km (22 miles) south of the capital Cairo.<\/p>\n

The unidentified attackers opened fire on a police checkpoint from a motorbike, officials say.<\/p>\n

Egypt has seen increased attacks on security forces since the army ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in July 2013.<\/p>\n

Most incidents have been confined to the restive Sinai peninsula.<\/p>\n

There, the authorities are battling jihadists who have pledged loyalty to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group.<\/p>\n

IS’s local affiliate says it was behind the crash of a Russian jet in Sinai, which killed all 224 people on board. <\/p>\n

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SOURCE:BBC:[Egypt police killed in drive-by shooting south of Cairo->http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-34952937]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{Four Egyptian police have been killed in a drive-by shooting, security officials say.} The shooting happened in the Saqqara area, some 35km (22 miles) south of the capital Cairo. The unidentified attackers opened fire on a police checkpoint from a motorbike, officials say. Egypt has seen increased attacks on security forces since the army ousted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000070462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-21474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":{"id":2000070462,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21474.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21474.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21474.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21474.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21474.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton21474.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000070462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=21474"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=21474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}