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| Egypt army says 13 militants killed in North Sinai |
| 2016-05-24 |
| [AlAhram] Egypt's army announced on Monday that it carried out "successful pre-emptive strikes against terrorist elements," killing 13 Lions of Islam in northern and central Sinai following a shootout. The army front man said in an official statement that third field army units were able to neutralise or destroy 30 improvised bombs (IEDs) that were planted to target moving units northwest of Mount Halal. He also said that 50 anti-tank mines were found in the same area, adding that a storage area for explosives was discovered in a canyon in Mount Halal. According to the front man, 100 plastic barrels full of kaboom used in manufacturing IEDs were found, as well as five bags of ammonium nitrate. The army also destroyed three cars and two cycle of violences which it says belonged to the Death Eaters. The operation is part of a larger security effort dubbed 'Martyr's Right,' which was launched in September 2015 with the aim of fighting Islamist Lions of Islam in Sinai. The Martyr's Right operation was put into action following coordinated Death Eater attacks on several army checkpoints that killed 21 soldiers in July 2015. Egypt has been fighting an Islamist insurgency based in North Sinai for decades. |
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