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Louvre attack suspect identified as 29-year-old Abdullah Reda - Egypt sources

Saturday 04-02-2017 09:22 AM

French police secure the site near the Louvre Pyramid in Paris- REUTERS

By Reuters

CAIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - The man suspected of attacking a soldier in Paris's Louvre museum on Friday has been identified as Abdullah Reda al-Hamamy, a 29-year-old Egyptian born in Dakahlia, a province northeast of Cairo, two security sources said.

(Reporting by Haitham Ahmed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan; Writing by Amina Ismail; Editing by Hugh Lawson

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