Egypt says security forces kill 15 militants in Sinai
Sunday 29/September/2019 - 02:28 PM
Egypt says its police forces have killed 15
suspected militants in a raid in the restive northern part of the Sinai
Peninsula.
An Interior Ministry statement Sunday says security
forces exchanged fire with the militants as they stormed their hideout in the
Mediterranean coastal city of el-Arish.
No casualties were reported among the police. The
statement did not say when the raid took place.
The statement came three days after an Islamic State
attack on a checkpoint in the town of Bir el-Abd killed eight troops and a
civilian. Security forces killed at least 15 militants in that attack.
Egypt has battled an insurgency led by an Islamic
State affiliate for years in the Sinai Peninsula that has occasionally spilled
over to the mainland.
