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CAIRO – 22 October 2017: The recordings circulated by some media outlets about the Wahat shootout are false and baseless, according to a statement released late Saturday by the Ministry of Interior's security media center.
The statement added that those recordings came from unreliable source and provided inaccurate details about the Friday clashes.
Seventeen security personnel were killed and fifteen others were injured during a raid on a militant hideout near the Giza-Al Wahat Road in the Giza governorate. According to security sources, the police forces are still deployed around the area to observe terrorist elements. The desert road was closed from both directions of Giza and Fayoum with a number of checkpoints to besiege any fleeing terrorists.
TV host Ahmed Moussa has aired on his TV show on Sada El-Balad a recording of unidentified person narrating alleged details of the Wahat clashes. The recording raised controversy on social media prompting the Media Syndicate to hold an immediate meeting to investigate the incident.
In April, Moussa was sentenced to suspended six months in prison and a LE 40,000 fine for illegally airing private phone calls of a former military leader.
The Ministry of Interior urged newspapers and the mass media to check the accuracy of news with official sources of the ministry, pointing out that spreading such recordings confuses public opinion and reflects the lack of responsibility in media.
The ministry also demanded the mass media to ignore those recordings and do not rely on them as sources of information.
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