13 Muslim Brotherhood members were killed in a security raid in west Cairo on Wednesday, an Egyptian security source said.

The 13 people were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces inside a house in October city, west Cairo, the source told Anadolu Agency.

According to the source, Brotherhood leader and former MP Nasser Al-Hafi were among those killed in the attack.

A Brotherhood source confirmed that the nine people were killed when security forces stormed their apartment, but denied claims that they were armed.

The killings came shortly after more than 60 soldiers were killed in a string of militant attacks in the north of the Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s violence comes two days after a deadly car bombing killed Egypt’s prosecutor general Hisham Barakat in eastern Cairo.

Egypt has been dogged by instability since Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, was overthrown in a military coup on July 3, 2013.

Since Morsi’s ouster, Egyptian authorities have carried out a relentless crackdown on dissent that has mainly targeted the ousted president’s supporters, leaving hundreds dead and thousands behind bars.

Scores of Muslim Brotherhood leaders and members, including Morsi, have been sentenced to death.

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The Muslim Brotherhood says its leaders killed in a Cairo apartment were murdered in “in cold blood,” calling for a rebellion against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who it calls a “butcher.”

“Come out in rebellion and in defense of your country, yourselves and your children,” it said in a statement issued in English Wednesday. “Destroy the citadels of his oppression and tyranny and reclaim Egypt once more.”

It called the killings “a turning point that will have its own repercussions… el-Sissi is initiating a new phase during which it will not be possible to control the anger of the oppressed sectors who will not accept to be killed in their own houses and in the middle of their families.”

It says the men were from a Brotherhood committee that supports the families of the group’s detainees and “martyrs,” and were “rounded up inside the house and then were murdered in cold blood without any investigations or indictments.”

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The Egyptian army planted weapons next to them to prove it was ‘a terrorist raid’: