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11 policemen killed in Sinai attack
Eleven Egyptian policemen were killed when a roadside bomb blast struck their armoured vehicle in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, security officials said. An officer and 10 conscripts were killed in the attack that took place on a road leading to the town of Rafah bordering the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Four conscripts were wounded.Egypt's military has sought to quell the militants in a massive operation that has killed scores of extremists and netted some of their leaders. The main militant group, Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, has acknowledged the loss of some of its leaders, but has continued to attack both the security forces and Bedouin suspected of collaborating with them. The group, whose name means Partisans of Jerusalem, has also said it was behind deadly bombings of police buildings in the capital and the Nile Delta. It says it wants to implement Islamic law and that it attacks security forces to avenge the killings of pro-Mursi protesters by the military and police following Mursi's ouster. Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, which has also fired rockets at neighbouring Israel, released a video last month claiming responsibility for beheading men it accused of working with the Jewish state. In another video, a militant thought to be the group...™s spiritual leader, Abu Osama Al Masri, supplicated God for victory for what he called his “brothers” in ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Attacks in Egypt by the militants have eased over the past month as the military squeezes their hideouts in the sparsely inhabited peninsula. In July, at least 12 people, including four children, were killed in north Sinai when militant rockets aimed at security forces misfired in two separate attacks. Posted by: Steve White 2014-09-03 |
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