Sinai bombings suspect killed
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — The leader of an al-Qaeda-inspired group wanted for last month's bombings at a Red Sea resort was killed in a gunbattle Tuesday in the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula.
Nasser Khamis el-Mallahi, the head of Egypt's Monotheism and Jihad, was the mastermind behind last month's attacks in north and south Sinai that killed 23 people and was the seventh suspected extremist killed by Egyptian security forces since a massive sweep was launched in the Sinai following three bombings in Dahab that killed 21 people on April 24.
El-Mallahi was killed in a half-hour gunbattle after security forces surrounded him in an olive grove in el-Karama district, south of el-Arish, the main town in the northern Sinai, said the commander of North Sinai security, Lt. Gen. Essam el-Sheik.
Nasser Khamis el-Mallahi, the head of Egypt's Monotheism and Jihad, was the mastermind behind last month's attacks in north and south Sinai that killed 23 people and was the seventh suspected extremist killed by Egyptian security forces since a massive sweep was launched in the Sinai following three bombings in Dahab that killed 21 people on April 24.
El-Mallahi was killed in a half-hour gunbattle after security forces surrounded him in an olive grove in el-Karama district, south of el-Arish, the main town in the northern Sinai, said the commander of North Sinai security, Lt. Gen. Essam el-Sheik.
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