Egyptian authorities have reportedly detained two top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, who had been on the run for the last two years, a security official said.
The New York Times quoted the source as saying that Abdel-Rahman el-Bar, the group's top religious cleric, and Mahmoud Ghozlan, the Brotherhood's former spokesman and a member of its top decision-making body, were nabbed from a Giza suburb hideout on Monday.
Egyptian authorities have initiated a massive clampdown on Brotherhood supporters after the deposition of former President Mohammed Morsi in a coup in July, 2013. The leader was the first freely elected president of Egypt.
