Militants attack post office in Egypt’s Sinai
Wednesday 03/July/2019 - 01:57 PM
Egyptian officials say militants have stormed a post
office in the northern Sinai Peninsula and seized around $6,000 in local
currency.
The officials say the attack took place Monday in
al-Rouda village, where a 2017 militant assault on a mosque killed more than
300 people.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized to brief reporters.
No group claimed responsibility for Monday’s attack.
Egypt has been battling Islamic militants for years,
but the insurgency metastasized after the 2013 military ouster of an elected
but divisive Islamist president.
