TWO KILLED IN SUICIDE BOMBING IN EGYPT'S NORTH SINAI
Suicide attack follows the discovery of four headless bodies in the conflict-wracked peninsula a day
earlier. A suicide bomber killed two people
in Egypt's restive North Sinai region on
Thursday, a day after four headless bodies were found there. The victims of the bombing were a civilian
and a member of the security forces, security and medical sources said.
The bomber was shot before he reached a
military checkpoint, his intended target, but his explosive belt
detonated and killed the soldier and civilian, an Egyptian military
spokesman said in a statement.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group claimed
responsibility for the attack via its Amaq website, saying five members of the
security forces were killed or wounded. Multiple armed groups, some linked to
ISIL, are active in the Sinai Peninsula and Egypt's army launched
a major operation there in February last year. Thursday's bombing took place at a car
park in the town of Sheikh Zuweid, near the border with the Gaza Strip. Separately, two security sources said four
headless bodies were found in an empty street in the North Sinai town of Bir
al-Abd on Wednesday. Their families reported that the four men, aged 23 to 51,
had been kidnapped.
Fighters stopped several cars before taking
five people away and forcing them to lie down on the ground, a security
source and three residents said. They killed four and kidnapped the fifth. ISIL claimed responsibility for the
beheadings, saying the four were spies for the Egyptian military. Security
services were hunting down the perpetrators. Egypt's State Information Service could
not immediately be reached for comment. The Egyptian military, which launched its
campaign in Sinai after an attack in November 2017 on a mosque in which
hundreds of worshippers died, says hundreds of fighters have been killed.
Source: Al- Jazeera- 18.07.2019
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