Militant killed, 18 arrested in Egypt's Sinai: Army
Sinai Peninsula has remained epicenter of deadly insurgency since Egypt’s 2013 military coup
By Rabie Abu Zamel
CAIRO
The Egyptian army on Monday announced it had killed an “armed militant” -- while arresting 18 others -- in the volatile Sinai Peninsula.
In a statement, army spokesman Tamer Refai said army forces had “eliminated a Takfiri [extremist] leader” in central Sinai and arrested 18 of his companions.
Several militant “hideouts”, including a number of fuel depots, were destroyed in the same operation, Refai added.
The spokesman’s assertions, however, have yet to be independently verified.
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula has remained the epicenter of a deadly militant insurgency since Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president, was ousted and imprisoned in a 2013 military coup.
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