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Egyptian forces clash with militants
Source: BBC News
Soldiers went into Kerdasah at about 05:30 local time (03:30 GMT) to target "criminal and terrorist hotbeds", officials told Mena news agency.
Militants shot dead Gen Nabil Farag, a senior policeman, state media said.
Eleven police officers were killed at a police station in Kerdasah last month, weeks after the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July.
Reporting from the centre of Kerdasah, the BBC's Quentin Sommerville said a major operation was under way.
Security forces were searching homes in Kerdasah for members of Mr Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood movement, residents told the BBC.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24156197
BBC link includes video.
