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Senior Muslim Brotherhood leader reportedly shot dead in Egypt

AKIPRESS.COM - Muslim-Brotherhood-Egypt A senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood organization has been killed by Egyptian Interior Ministry forces, BBC reported referring to the ministry.

In a statement, it said Mohamed Kamal died in a gun battle along with another member of the group on Monday.

The ministry said Kamal was in charge of the group's armed wing, although the Brotherhood maintains it is a exclusively peaceful organization.

He had been sentenced to life in prison on two counts in absentia.

The Muslim Brotherhood said he had disappeared on Monday.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is a Sunni Islamist religious, political and social movement. Founded by Hassan al-Banna in March 1928, the group spread to other Muslim countries but has one of its largest organizations in Egypt despite a succession of government crackdowns in 1948, 1954, 1965, and 2013 after plots, or alleged plots, of assassination and overthrow were uncovered. In September 2013, Egyptian court banned the Brotherhood and its associations; and in December the military-backed interim government declared the movement a terrorist group following the bombing of security directorate building in Mansoura.

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