Gunmen killed two Egyptian policemen on Wednesday in the Sinai
Peninsula, the interior ministry said, in an attack claimed by Islamic
State group jihadists.
Egypt's security forces have come under
regular attack since the military ousted Islamist president Mohammed
Morsi two years ago.
In Wednesday's attack in El-Arish, the
capital of North Sinai province, "unidentified assailants on a motorbike
opened fire on two police, who died of their wounds", the interior
ministry said in a statement.
The attackers managed to escape, according to security officials.
The
Egyptian affiliate of ISIS, which calls itself Sinai Province, said it
was responsible and posted photographs of the purported attack and its
aftermath online.
The government says hundreds of police and
soldiers have been killed in attacks in the past two years, many of
which were claimed by ISIS's Egyptian affiliate.
The jihadists say
their attacks are in response to a crackdown launched by the
authorities after Morsi's ouster that has seen at least 1 400 people
killed and thousands more jailed.
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
ISIS kills 2 police in Egypt's Sinai
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