Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Interior Ministry said on Sunday it had "killed a group - described as a terrorist - in an exchange of fire with security forces in the Galbana area of northern Sinai," stressing that the clash wounded three officers and a policeman.
The ministry said in a statement that it spotted that group inside one of the cars as soon as they were ready to carry out a terrorist attack, but that immediately after feeling the tightness of the siege on them fired heavily towards the troops were dealt with.
The statement did not give any details about the number of people killed, but only to announce the liquidation of a person named Ahmed Adel Said, nicknamed "Abu Hamza", said that he died in an exchange of fire, as well as the injury of two officers and one of the participants in the mission.
The statement pointed out that a number of automatic weapons and a quantity of ammunition and metal cutting cylinders used in the manufacture of improvised explosive devices and Tabanga (cz) were found to have been seized after the terrorist group attacked and killed a police officer on January 4, 2018, and that The car they had seized was stolen on September 9 by a citizen as he was driving on Assaf Road south of Jalbana.
This comes a day after an attack by unidentified gunmen on an ambush in the city of El-Arish (northern Sinai), killing three soldiers of the army, in addition to the injury of two others, in addition to the killing of three militants.
Since February 9, 2018, the Egyptian army, in cooperation with the Ministry of Interior, has been conducting a large-scale military operation in Sinai called Operation Comprehensive Sinai 2018.
Between July 2013 and July 2018, the Arab Organization for Human Rights documented the deaths of 4,010 civilians in Sinai, including 3,709 people the army said were killed as a result of security confrontations, and the rest were killed indiscriminately, without opening an investigation into any incident.