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| Egyptian police captain killed after explosion during North Sinai shootout |
| 2016-08-16 |
| [AlAhram] An Egyptian police captain was killed on Monday when a landmine detonated during a shootout with "terrorist elements" in North Sinai's Al-Arish, an interior ministry official announced. In an official statement, a ministry media official said that Captain Mohammed Safwat Mohammed Roshdy died from injuries sustained following the landmine kaboom while security forces were chasing snuffies who had been planting a 50kg bomb in the vicinity of an Al-Arish cop shoppe. According to the statement, the police were able to defuse the bomb that was set to target the cop shoppe, and were able to injure one of the gunnies. The statement added that security forces were currently intensifying efforts to catch the culprits. |
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