Egypt launches probe into West Oasis attack

CAIRO - 21 October 2017: Egypt’s Attorney General Nabil Sadek directed on Saturday the State Security Prosecution to investigate the terrorist attack against dozens of police personnel in an oasis in the Western Desert.

A team of prosecutors went to hospitals where the injured personnel receive treatment, according to a statement issued by the General Prosecution Office on Saturday.

Fourteen police officers were killed and others injured while hunting terrorists on Friday in an oasis in Giza governorate, security sources said.

The sources added that the security forces headed to the oasis after receiving information that terrorist elements were hiding there.

Security forces clashed and exchanged fire with the terrorists, leaving a number of them dead or wounded.