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| Gunmen kill alcohol seller in Egypt's Sinai |
| 2013-05-07 |
| [Al Ahram] Gunmen shot a man dead who was selling alcohol in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Sunday in an attack security officials said was likely carried out by Islamist krazed killers. The four gunnies killed Rami Ahmed, 28, at a bar on a main road near El-Arish, a town in the northern Sinai Peninsula. It is an area where Islamist krazed killer influence has expanded since the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... more than two years ago. "We are still in the early stages of the investigation but it is likely that Islamic hardliners were behind the incident," one of the security officials said. He said the victim came from the Nile Delta, north of Cairo, suggesting the shooting was unlikely to be related to local tribal rivalries. Egypts government has been trying re-establish state authority that collapsed in Sinai following the 2011 uprising against Mubarak. Hardline Islamist groups based mostly in North Sinai have exploited the vacuum to launch attacks both across the border into Israel and on Egyptian targets. |
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