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Assailants killed five Egyptian policemen in a shooting south of Cairo on Friday, in the latest of a series of attacks targeting the country's security forces, the interior ministry said. 

The ministry said three gunmen opened fire on a police car and then fled, killing a non-commissioned officer, three conscripts and a police employee.

The attack took place near Badrasheen, a town some 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Cairo, where militants have also targeted police in the past.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The killings came as police and the army said they are closing in on militants and jihadists following a spate of deadly attacks in the Nile Valley and the Sinai Peninsula.

Egypt has struggled to quell the Islamic State jihadist group based in the Sinai Peninsula and smaller militant groups in the mainland since the military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and cracked down on his supporters.

IS jihadists killed at least 21 soldiers in restive north Sinai on July 7, the same day as the militant Hasam group claimed responsibility for shooting dead an officer with Egypt's secret police in an attack north of Cairo.

The interior ministry said a day later that it had killed 14 alleged IS members in a raid on a training camp in the eastern province of Ismailiya.

Earlier this week, the ministry said police had killed six IS militants in a shootout in southern Egypt.

While smaller groups like Hasam have mostly targeted policemen and government officials, IS has also attacked foreign tourists and Egypt's Coptic Christian minority.

Dozens of Christians have been killed in church bombings and shootings since last December in attacks claimed by IS.

Two church bombings in April prompted the government to declare emergency law, which expands the police's powers of arrests and can lead to expedited trials.

On Thursday, Christian churches said they were suspending some activities such as conferences and religious trips for three weeks over security concerns.

In Sinai, jihadists who pledged allegiance to IS in November 2014 have killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers.

They are believed to be led by jihadist Bedouin who inhabit the sparsely populated peninsula that has popular tourist beach resorts in the south.

But police say groups like Hasam and Lewaa al-Thawra, which has claimed several attacks near Cairo, are linked to Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement that was blacklisted as a terrorist group after his overthrow.

The Brotherhood says it eschews violence, but the group -- once the largest Islamist grassroots organisation in the region -- has splintered since Morsi's ouster with competing factions.

The group was decimated in a crackdown following his overthrow, with hundreds of supporters killed in clashes with police and thousands detained.

Source: AFP

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