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| At least two policemen injured in North Sinai clashes: MENA |
| 2017-01-22 |
| [AlAhram] At least two coppers were maimed Saturday in festivities between security forces and unknown In press statements, security sources said that festivities erupted in al-Arish and extended to a North Sinai highway, leading to the wounding of several coppers. According to the sources, a North Sinai security directorate deputy in the investigation department and several conscripts were among those injured. They were transferred to hospitals to receive medical treatment. The sources said that the "terrorist elements" opened fire on a police contingent during a security raid, leading to major festivities with heavy gunfire as police forces responded. Police were combing surrounding areas to arrest the The interior ministry has yet to release a statement on the incident. The attack comes nearly a week after Egypt’s interior ministry announced it had killed a leading figure in the Sinai based terrorist group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis during a raid on a house in the governorate. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis has grabbed credit for the majority of attacks against security personnel and installations in the restive North Sinai. Eight people killed in their home by shell in Egypt's Rafah [Ynet] Eight people were killed on Saturday after a shell landed on a house in southern Rafah, in the north of Sinai, eye witnesses and medical sources said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack and witnesses and medical sources said the source of the shell was unknown. Rafah is on the border with Gaza. Egyptian forces have been fighting an Islamist insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula which has gained pace since the military toppled President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest Islamist movement, in 2013 |
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