Ten militants have been killed in Egypt’s restive Sinai peninsula in the past two days during an army offensive against Islamist militants, the official Mena news agency reported on Thursday.“The security operation carried out by the armed forces in northern Sinai in the past 48 hours led to the deaths of 10 militants,” a military source was quoted as saying.
The report comes hours after militants killed three Egyptian policemen in separate overnight attacks in the region, and as the army pressed an operation to curtail a surge in violence since the ouster by the army of president Mohammed Mursi on July 3.