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| Two soldiers injured in armed attack in Sinai's Arish |
| 2013-08-08 |
| [Al Ahram] Two soldiers were maimed in an attack by unknown assailants on a security checkpoint in Arish in North Sinai on Wednesday, state news agency MENA reported. One of the soldiers, Mohamed Gamal Mohamed, 22, was shot in his knee and the other, Islam Abdel-Moneim Mohamed, 22, suffered from a gunshot wound to his arm. The armed assailants shot at a security checkpoint located at the ring road out of Arish. Security forces shot back but the assailants managed to escape. Earlier on Wednesday, army front man Ahmed Ali released a statement with the results of the police and army's crackdown on "terrorism and jihadists" in Sinai from 5 July to 4 August. The crackdown resulted in apprehending 227 individuals -- 103 of which were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and 124 are either of dead or injured, Ali said in a statement released via Facebook. The army statement comes hours after the murder of a Mubarak-era parliamentarian by unknown assailants in Egypt's Sinai Penninsula. Attackers fired from four bullets a moving vehicle at Abdel Hamid Silmi, 58, as he left a mosque early on Wednesday after dawn prayers. Critics of the Moslem Brüderbund accuse the group of instigating violence in Sinai -- charges much repeated after senior Brotherhood figure Mohamed El-Beltagi stated last month that violence in Sinai would immediately end should Morsi be reinstated. |
| Posted by:Fred |