MOI releases video of MB arrests

The Interior Ministry released a video Thursday evening showing the arrest of five men accused of killing a police officer.

The men, who the ministry claimed were “Muslim Brotherhood elements,” are suspected of stabbing police sergeant Ahmed Gharib Soleiman to death while he was guarding the Virgin Mary Church in Ain Shams, the video said.

One of the suspects gives his testimony in the video, but the footage appeared heavily edited, skipping between questions posed by an off-screen interrogator.

The video also included footage of three other alleged Brotherhood members implicated in a separate incident.

The three men, who were bandaged and bloodied in the footage, are accused of unlawful possession of 116 Molotov cocktails, shotgun ammunition and materials for manufacturing explosives.

Also on Thursday evening, two policemen were shot to death in Giza by two unknown assailants on a motorcycle.

The victims, Officer Mohamed Hegazy and Sergeant Hady Hassan, were killed in Saqqara.

The government recently announced it would regulate the sale of motorcycles more closely after a recent spate of drive-by shootings using the vehicles. It also announced it would halt the import of tok toks, although it is unclear how many attacks on police have involved the three-wheeled vehicles.