A picture taken from the Rafah border of the southern Gaza Strip with Egypt shows smoke billowing in Egypt's North Sinai on July 8, 2017. Twenty-six Egyptian soldiers were killed or wounded on July 7, 2017, in attacks on checkpoints in the Sinai Peninsula where the Islamic State group is conducting an insurgency, the military said. / AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB

Egypt raid kills 14 Daesh suspects after deadly Sinai attack

On Jul 9, 2017

YemenExtra

Egyptian police said they killed 14 suspected Daesh members on Saturday in a raid on a training camp, a day after the militants conducted a deadly attack on soldiers.

Funerals were held across the country for at least 21 soldiers killed in Friday’s attack in the north of the Sinai Peninsula, one of deadliest against the military in years. The dead included a high-ranking special forces officer, Colonel Ahmed el-Mansi.

The interior ministry said police officers raided a desert training camp in the eastern province of Ismailiya, killing the 14 alleged militants.

At least five of them had been wanted on charges of joining IS, it said in a statement.

Daesh has been leading a deadly insurgency that has killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since the army overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 and cracked down on his supporters.

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