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| Senior Egypt military officer shot dead near Cairo |
| 2016-10-23 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] A senior Egyptian army officer was rubbed out outside his home in a Cairo suburb on Saturday, an army official and a relative told AFP. Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... s have killed hundreds of coppers and soldiers, mostly in the Sinai Peninsula, but such attacks on senior officers are rare. Brigadier General Adel Ragaei, who commanded an armored division deployed in Sinai, died in a hail of bullets as he left his home in the Obour City suburb, sister-in-law Huda Zein Elabedine told AFP. "At 6 am they killed him. I can’t tell you if it was six or twelve bullets. It was before he could get into his car," she said. A military official told AFP that the officer has been "martyred." |
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