Cairo, Sha'ban 1, 1437, May 8, 2016, SPA -- Gunmen shot dead eight policemen Sunday in a Cairo suburb, the latest in a series of assaults targeting security forces in Egypt, dpa reported. The plainclothes officers were inside a small bus in the southern suburb of Helwan when the gunmen came out of a pickup truck, opened fire and then fled, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The attack was carried out by four assailants using automatic rifles, the ministry added. There were conflicting claims of responsibility for the ambush. --SPA 13:16 LOCAL TIME 10:16 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w