CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian police in the Sinai peninsula shot dead on Wednesday one of the men suspected in the bombings which killed 67 people in the resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in July, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The suspect, Moussa Mohamed Salem Badran, born in 1978 and a resident of the North Sinai town of El Arish, had refused to surrender and opened fire on a group of policemen who tried to arrest him in the Mount Halal area, it said. | "You'll never take me alive, coppers!" "OK.....KAPOW!" "Urp......rosebud.." |
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"He refused to surrender and exchanged fire with police, wounding a policeman. With him were found two hand grenades, a pistol and the automatic weapon which he used," it added. "Badran played a prominent role in preparing and carrying out the Sharm el-Sheikh attacks," the statement said. Another suspect, Mohamed Fulayfel, was shot dead with his wife in an exchange of fire with police in August near the town of Suez, just across the Suez Canal from Sinai.
| Yes, we've noticed you aren't taking many suspects alive. Not that there's anything wrong with that |
They say the bombers are Sinai bedouin, some of them with Palestinian connections. The government says it has not seen any evidence that they are affiliated with any larger group.
| See no evil, hear no evil, confront no evil |