CAIRO
Nine Muslim Brotherhood members were killed in a security raid in west Cairo on Wednesday, an Egyptian security source said.
The nine people were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces inside a house in October city, west Cairo, the source told Anadolu Agency.
According to the source, Brotherhood leader and former MP Nasser al-Hafi were among those killed in the attack.
A Brotherhood source confirmed that the nine people were killed when security forces stormed their apartment, but denied claims that they were armed.
The killings came shortly after more than 60 soldiers were killed in a string of militant attacks in the north of the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday.
Wednesday's violence comes two days after a deadly car bombing killed Egypt’s prosecutor general Hisham Barakat in eastern Cairo.
Egypt has been dogged by instability since Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was overthrown in a military coup on July 3, 2013.
Since Morsi's ouster, Egyptian authorities have carried out a relentless crackdown on dissent that has mainly targeted the ousted president’s supporters, leaving hundreds dead and thousands behind bars.
Scores of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, including Morsi, have been sentenced to death.
