Sniper shoots dead Egyptian police officer in Sinai
A militant has shot dead an Egyptian policeman in the restive northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt.
“The policeman was standing guard in a surveillance tower at the Sheikh Zuweid police station on Saturday when he was shot dead by a sniper,” said security officials who were speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.
No individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet.
However, Egyptian security forces have been facing growing hostility in the volatile Sinai Peninsula mainly from a local terrorist group known as the Velayat Sinai (Sinai Province). The Takfiri group has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks on government targets.
On July 1, the military said that a multi-checkpoint assault killed at least 17 soldiers in north Sinai. Officials from multiple branches of Egypt’s security forces previously told the Associated Press that the attack killed dozens more.
The Velayat Sinai terrorist group pledged allegiance to the Takfiri ISIL group in November 2014 and has been behind most of the attacks that have killed many Egyptian police officers, soldiers, judiciary officials, and civilians over the past months.
The Egyptian army has deployed reinforcements and military weapons and hardware to the region to fight the surging hostility there.
The army says it has killed over 1,000 militants in Sinai since tensions rose after former army chief and current President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi ousted Egypt’s first democratically-elected President Mohammed Morsi in a coup in July 2013.
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