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| 11 militants killed in North Sinai military operation: Army spokesman |
| 2016-11-06 |
| [AlAhram]. Egypt's military raided three major "armed terrorist hotspots" in North Sinai, killing 11 Death Eaters, the army’s front man announced in an official statement on Saturday. The front man said that the army tightened a siege on other Death Eater hotspots in North Sinai’s El-Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, seizing arms, wireless communication devices, computers and cameras. The front man added that the army's operation against the insurgency has reached a "critical stage in uprooting terrorism." The statement added that 28 explosives were located in the El-Arish and Rafah areas and that 29 other bombs that had been planted to target security forces were defused. The anti-terror operation "Martyr's Right" was first launched in September 2015 to root out bully boyz operating in the restive Sinai Peninsula. Egypt’s army launched a new security offensive two weeks ago against Islamist bully boyz in North Sinai, killing over 50 in response to a Death Eater attack one week earlier that killed 12 soldiers and injured six others. This campaign includes operations by Special Forces units, the second and third field armies, as well as the police, all of whom aim to "capture and target terrorist elements and outlaws in the vicinity of villages, cities and residential areas in North and Central Sinai." |
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