Security kills militant in north Sinai
Friday 11/October/2019 - 02:42 PM
Egypt’s state-run news agency says security forces
killed a militant who tried to blow himself up near a checkpoint in a restive
province in northern Sinai.
MENA news agency reports that security forces shot
and killed the militant on Thursday in the Mediterranean coastal city of
el-Arish, before he could detonate his explosive-laden belt.
The official Facebook page of Egypt’s interior
ministry posted a photograph showing the purported militant’s body on the
ground, his face blurred out.
Egypt has battled an insurgency led by an Islamic
State affiliate for years in the Sinai Peninsula. The fighting has occasionally
spilled over to the mainland.
