Security Forces Kill 3 Terrorists in North Sinai

Security forces in the northern part of Sinai Peninsula, next to the Mediterranean Sea, today liquidated three persons suspected of affiliating to a terrorist group in the province.

The Ministry of Interior issued a statement says  that security forces are still following and chasing terrorist elements entangled in carrying aggression against servicemen, cops and civilians across the country.

The terrorists seek to disturb the  peace and hit capabilities of the homeland.

Officers of the National Security Department have got information that that some terrorists had gathered in Julbanah District in North Sinai.

They were planning and preparing for a series of aggressive operations against servicemen and police in the surrounding area.

The officers examined information to determine how to deal with the suspects.

Three suspects were spotted  as riding a motorcycle. They were about to carry out a terror attack.

But when  they sensed the police encircled them tightly,  they opened fire intensively at the cops.

Police officers traded fire with them attackers and killed three of them.

Two machine guns,  a handgun, a quantity of bullets and two grenades were found with the suspects.

Legal procedures were taken in that case and Higher State Security Prosecutors started investigations into the incident.

Previously  more  than half a dozen people were reportedly killed Friday during a terrorist attack on an Egyptian military checkpoint near the northern Sinai town of Bir al-Abed. The Islamic State group reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack.

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News agencies  reported that terrorists  claimed responsibility for those attacks on the Egyptian military checkpoints.

It was not clear from which country the terrorist group issued its declaration.

Egyptian media has frequently accused some foreign countries of supporting terrorists

Egyptian political sociologist Said Sadek told VOA that he thinks that both Friday's terrorist attack and efforts to spark popular protests were coming from groups and media outlets in Turkey, Qatar and Iran.

Sadek said he thinks that  the terrorist attacks were "an attempt to draw attention away from internal social and economic problems in Iran and distract international media away from covering the crisis in the Gulf."