A drive-by shooting on Tuesday killed 21-year-old police cadet Ramadan Ibrahim, who was manning a checkpoint on the Cairo-Ismailia highway at the time of the attack.

A drive-by shooting on Tuesday killed 21-year-old police cadet Ramadan Ibrahim, who was manning a checkpoint on the Cairo-Ismailia highway at the time of the attack.

Additional police personnel were injured in the shooting, including 21-year-old Ahmed Hussein, who is in critical condition after being shot in the right calf, Al-Ahram's website reported.

Mohamed Awad Kamal, 32, was shot in the right hand and on the left side of his torso.

The armed assailants fired from a car without license plates, randomly spraying the checkpoint with bullets.