CAIRO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Saturday denounced the terrorist attack in Egypt's Giza province that killed 16 Egyptian policemen.
Aboul-Gheit expressed full support for Egypt in its battle against terrorism.
The attack proved once again the big danger posed by terrorism against the Arab societies, the AL chief said.
Egyptian Interior Ministry announced earlier that 16 policemen were killed and another went missing in the Friday shootout with terrorists in the desert of Giza province.
The ministry said that 15 terrorists were either killed or injured in the armed clash.
Egypt has been fighting against a wave of terror activities that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the military toppled former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and his currently outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Terror attacks in Egypt used to be centered in North Sinai before spreading nationwide and killing hundreds of policemen and soldiers over the past few years.
Meanwhile, security raids killed hundreds of militants and arrested a similar number of suspects as part of the country's anti-terror war.
