Cairo - Egyptian police have killed two leaders of the Hasm militia in a shootout after intercepting them as they relocated to a new hideout on Cairo's outskirts, the government said Tuesday. The interior ministry said the two militants were "prominent leaders" of the Hasm group, an extremist movement the government accuses of having links to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. The militia ambushed a police convoy and killed three officers in May, in an attack the group claimed at the time and which the government has since also blamed on them. The government says Hasm is linked to the Brotherhood movement of former president Mohamed Moursi who was toppled by protesters in 2013. The militia has previously claimed responsibility for deadly attacks against security forces; last attack killed 27 of Egypt's security forces, as well as assassination attempts targeting a pro-government Muslim cleric and Egypt's deputy prosecutor general.