Egyptian security forces shot dead 24 Isis militants in central
Sinai, 70 km from the crash site of the Russian passenger plane the
group claimed it brought down, security sources have said.
Security sources said they killed the militants as they hid inside a
cave in a mountainous area and that they arrested eight of them.
Sinai Province, Isis's Egypt branch, is active in North Sinai where two
years ago it launched an insurgency and has since killed hundreds of
soldiers and policemen. It is rarely
active outside that area.
Western governments said it was likely that the Russian airliner that
crashed in the Sinai on Oct. 31 killing all 224 people on board was
brought down by a bomb and Isis claimed it was behind the crash.
Egypt says the bomb theory is premature and that only the conclusion
of an official investigation will shed light on what brought down the
Airbus 321.
Sinai Province said in a statement on the day of the crash that it
had brought down the plane in response to Russian air strikes in Syria.
Monday, November 16, 2015
Egypt kills 24 Isis militants 70km from Russian plane crash site
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