Egyptian police said on Monday they killed a top ISIL group operative in the capital implicated in a string of attacks including the murders of a Croat and an American.

Egyptian police said on Monday they killed a top ISIL group operative in the capital implicated in a string of attacks including the murders of a Croat and an American.

An interior ministry statement said Ashraf Ali Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli was shot dead in an exchange of fire after police tried to arrest him.