CAIRO — Suspected Muslim extremists shot and killed a high-ranking police officer and a woman in an attack Thursday in a public square in southern Egypt.
Two police officers and another civilian were wounded in the attack in Qena, 300 miles south of Cairo, authorities said.
Police Brigadier Mahmoud Deeb, head of investigations at Qena, died immediately, the Interior Ministry said. A female bystander, Nagiya Dessouki, died in a hospital, it said.
