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Egypt: Body of kidnapped police officer found in Sinai

Security forces have found the body of an Egyptian police officer kidnapped by gunmen this week in the Sinai Peninsula, home to Islamist militants seeking to topple the government, the army spokesman said on Tuesday. The officer was snatched on Sunday in the border town of Rafah in the volatile north of Sinai, a remote but strategic area that borders Israel, Gaza and the Suez Canal.

 

"At dawn today, the body of the martyr captain Ayman al-Sayed Ibrahim al-Desouki was found... after he was killed by the terrorist elements," the spokesman said in a statement posted on his official Facebook page. Islamic State said on its official news cast earlier on Tuesday that its wing in Sinai had kidnapped the officer.

 


פרסום ראשון: 01.13.15, 16:51