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One killed in KFC attack in town north of Egyptian capital

Xinhua, February 5, 2015 Adjust font size:

One person was killed on Thursday in an attack on a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Menoufia province, north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, official news agency MENA reported.

The resultant, located at Qouwasna city, 80 km north to Cairo, was set ablaze after unknown militants on a motorcycle threw flammable materials, the report quoted Momtaz Fahmy, head of Menoufia security headquarters as saying.

The assailants then shoot randomly on the restaurant workers and fled the scene, the report added.

A wave of attacks hit Egypt after the ouster of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 by the army.

The militants killed hundreds of police and army men in retaliation of harsh crackdown on Morsi's supporters which left nearly 1,000.

Lately, the militant operations crept from its center in Sinai to the capital and other cities targetting civilians. Endit