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Four North Sinai civilians killed by IED planted in garbage bag
2016-08-07
[AlAhram] Four non-combatants were killed in North Sinai's El-Arish after an improvised bomb planted in a garbage bag detonated late Friday in the vicinity of a cop shoppe, state owned MENA agency reported.

According to a security source, the IED went kaboom! on El-Bahr Street as a sanitation truck was collecting garbage, killing a cleaning worker and a passerby.

Two members of the same family were also killed in the blast, 21-year-old Basma Said Mostafa Rashad, who died of her injuries on Saturday, and her brother Mohammed Said Mostafa, who died instantly when caught in the blast.

Three other people were maimed in the kaboom.

No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack, which comes only one day after Egypt's army announced that it killed the leader of Egypt’s Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
affiliate Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis in Arclight airstrikes south of El-Arish.

The group, which originated in Sinai and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State holy warrior group in November, has grabbed credit for most of the attacks against security personnel and installations in the restive governorate.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  "Mom, have you seen my IED?"
"Yeah, I threw it out"

Snark of the day.
Posted by: Frank G   2016-08-07 10:46  

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