Egypt executes 4 jihadists over 2015 attack

Egypt on Tuesday executes four Islamists following their conviction by a military tribunal of killing three military academy students in a 2015 bomb attack that wounded six others.

The attack took place outside a stadium in the Nile Delta city of Kafr el-Sheikh as the military cadets were waiting for a bus to take them to the academy.

Tuesday’s executions at a prison in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria bring to 19 the number of jihadists executed over the past week.

Authorities executed 15 jihadists on December 26 after a military court convicted and sentenced them to death over a 2013 attack on a military checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, home of a long running insurgency by Islamist groups. An officer and eight soldiers were killed in that attack.

— Agencies