Security forces kill four militants in Ismailia

CAIRO – 15 July 2017: A security source told Egypt Today on Saturday that security forces killed four militants during an armed confrontation in Ismailia. The militants escaped from Sinai to Ismailia.

The security source said that the National Security Service in Ismailia provided them with information that a group of militants fleeing from Sinai intended to carry out terrorist attacks in Ismailia. The security forces spotted four of the militants attacked and killed them following an armed confrontation.

The source added that the security forces seized weapons and ammunition in the possession of the militants and confirmed that their bodies were held at Ismailia General Hospital.

Since 2013, state security forces, represented by both the army and the police, have been engaged in violent clashes with an Islamist insurgency in parts of the North Sinai governorate.

The Islamist insurgency has killed hundreds of Egyptian security forces, predominately in North Sinai. The army also announced it has killed hundreds of militants.