Senior Brotherhood member among dead in Egypt police raid: lawyer
Egyptian riot police secure a street during 2014 clashes with Muslim Brotherhood supporters in Cairo. By Khaled Desouki (AFP/File)
Cairo (AFP) - Senior Muslim Brotherhood member Nasser al-Houfi was among nine men killed on Wednesday in an Egyptian police raid on an apartment in Cairo, a lawyer for the group told AFP.
"Houfi's family is on its way to pick up the body," the lawyer said.
Houfi was a former parliamentarian and committee leader for the blacklisted Islamist movement.