CAIRO (AFP) -
Egypt's
army killed 60 gunmen Friday in clashes in the Sinai Peninsula where it
is battling a jihadist insurgency, an army spokesman said.
Army
"counterterrorism units backed by the air force" Friday "killed 60
terrorists, wounded another 40 and destroyed 27 four-wheel pick-up
trucks south of Rafah and Sheikh Zayed" in North Sinai, the spokesman
said on his official Facebook page.
This toll could not be independently verified.
Since
Egypt's military overthrew Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013,
jihadists attacks on the army and police have persisted despite an army
campaign against them.
The local affiliate of the jihadist Islamic
State group claimed last week on a police checkpoint near North Sinai's
provincial capital of El-Arish that killed 15 policemen.
IS also
claimed responsibility for bombing a Russian airliner in October that
killed all 224 people on board, minutes after it took off from a South
Sinai beach resort.
© 2016 AFP
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