Seven drug traffickers were killed on Tuesday in an exchange of gunfire with Egyptian police in a remote Nile River island in the northern Beheira province, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The operation was launched after intelligence identified the island stronghold as the base for a criminal hotbed involved in drug trafficking, the ministry added.
The traffickers had extensive criminal records, including prior convictions for serious crimes such as murder, drug trafficking, armed robbery, and firearms offenses, according to the statement.
7 drug traffickers killed by police in security operation in Egypt
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