Gunmen shot dead an Egyptian policeman in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security officials said, a day after 11 policemen were killed in a roadside bombing. Assailants in a car gunned down the sergeant in the **rth Sinai town of El-Arish, the officials said. The shooting came a day after the deadliest attack on policemen in months, when a roadside bomb that exploded near an armoured police vehicle killed an ******r and 10 conscripts. Militants in Sinai have killed scores of policemen and soldiers in a string of attacks since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
09-03-2014, 06:24 PM
Egypt policeman 'shot dead in Sinai'
Gunmen shot dead an Egyptian policeman in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday, security officials said, a day after 11 policemen were killed in a roadside bombing. Assailants in a car gunned down the sergeant in the **rth Sinai town of El-Arish, the officials said. The shooting came a day after the deadliest attack on policemen in months, when a roadside bomb that exploded near an armoured police vehicle killed an ******r and 10 conscripts. Militants in Sinai have killed scores of policemen and soldiers in a string of attacks since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
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