A group connected with the notorious Muslim Brotherhood has claimed responsibility for the killing of eight policemen in Cairo on Sunday, local media reported. The Egyptian Popular Resistance Movement, which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political group, has claimed responsibility for the killing of eight policemen in the vicinity of Cairo on Sunday, local media reported. Earlier in the day, four unidentified men ambushed and opened fire on a microbus carrying local plainclothes policemen using automatic weapons in Helwan, a city in Greater Cairo, killing a first lieutenant and seven other police officers. Each victim sustained more than ten gunshot wounds. According to the newspaper Youm7, the movement placed a corresponding statement on their Facebook page, claiming the attack was carried out to honor those who died during protests at the square near the Rabiyah Aladawiah Mosque on the 1,000-day anniversary of the massacre. In summer 2013, the Egyptian Security Forces dispersed a sit-in Muslim Brotherhood protest at the Rabiyah Aladawiah square against the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi.
