Shooting during Egypt nunnery kills policeman: confidence source
AFP: A policeman was killed and 4 some-more were bleeding on Tuesday in a sharpened outward St Catherine’s nunnery in Egypt’s south Sinai, a confidence source said.
The sharpened occurred during a confidence checkpoint, a source said, though it was not immediately transparent who had non-stop fire.
No other information on a occurrence was immediately available.
Khalid Abu Hashem, a health method central for South Sinai province, told state radio that one chairman had been killed and 4 wounded.
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The harmed were in a fast condition and had been taken to sanatorium in a circuitously Red Sea review city of Sharm el-Sheikh, he said.
St Catherine’s monastery, that lies some 500 kilometres southeast of Cairo in a south of a Sinai peninsula, attracts thousands of visitors a year.
Egypt is battling a belligerent rebellion in north Sinai that has killed hundreds of policemen and infantry given a 2013 ouster of boss Mohamed Morsi.
In Oct 2015, a Islamic State organisation pronounced it was behind a bombing of a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers home from a renouned south Sinai review of Sharm el-Sheikh, murdering all 224 people on board.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1387681/shooting-egypt-monastery-kills-policeman-security-source/