Egypt army shoots IS seven militants dead

cairo - Egyptian security forces have shot dead in a firefight seven members of Islamic State (IS). Who came together with the intention to commit an attack on Christians. That said, the Egyptian Interior Ministry.

The confrontation took place in the southern city of Assuit where many Christians live, a day after there were slain in two bloody suicide attacks on churches 44 people in northern Egypt. Which were claimed by IS.

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called for three-month state of emergency and to protect the army ordered over the country public buildings and infrastructure.

At the spot where seven militants came together was the army ammunition, weapons and books IS.

The then General al-Sisi hold early July 2013 the power and since then conducts a crackdown on moderate Islamists and extremists. Critics of al-Sisi repression fuels extremism on.

But many Christians see him as a shield against the Sunni extremism Middle East teases. Of the more than ninety million Egyptians there are an estimated 13.5 million Christians.