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Africa North
Police colonel killed in bomb attack in Sinai's El-Arish: Interior ministry
2017-03-10
[AlAhram] A North Sinai police colonel was killed Wednesday night in a kaboom on a security checkpoint in North Sinai, Egypt’s interior ministry announced.

Colonel Yasser El-Hadidi was killed when a bomb went kaboom! near his patrol in El-Arish, in the vicinity of the city’s third cop shoppe, the ministry said on its official Facebook page.

Three other coppers were also injured in the attack.

Islamic State affiliate in North Sinai claims responsibility for murder of police colonel

[AlAhram] The North Sinai-based bad boy group Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, an affiliate of the 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....
bad boy group, has grabbed credit for a bombing that killed a police colonel in North Sinai Wednesday night.

The bad boy group said in a statement released on social media on Thursday that its members planted two bombs in El-Arish city targeting a military convey, killing colonel Yasser El-Hadidi and injuring three coppers.
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