CAIRO: Two Egyptian policemen have been shot dead in the bastion of Daesh in the Sinai Peninsula, the Interior Ministry said, in an attack claimed by the terrorists Sunday.
“A police captain and a policeman died of their wounds after unknown assailants shot them” late Saturday in the North Sinai provincial capital El-Arish, the ministry said in a statement.
The area is a stronghold of the Egyptian affiliate of Daesh that calls itself “Sinai Province.”
The group claimed the killings on a Twitter account affiliated to it, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
Sinai Province said it killed the two policemen in separate attacks in El-Arish, the monitoring group said.
The militants have stepped up attacks which they say are in retaliation for a bloody crackdown on supporters of Muslim Brotherhood.
2 Egypt cops shot dead by Daesh in Sinai
2 Egypt cops shot dead by Daesh in Sinai
