Egypt forces have killed 38 jihadists in major Sinai operation

Egypt’s military says it has killed 38 militants and arrested more than 500 jihadists and suspects days after launching a major operation against an Islamic State group affiliate in Sinai.

The military says it had killed 10 “extremely dangerous” extremists, in addition to 28 jihadists it had previously announced as having been killed.

A statement adds that 400 “criminal elements and suspects” had been arrested, having previously announced the arrest of 126 people.

The dead jihadists had been “hiding inside a house in the vicinity of El-Arish city (North Sinai province’s capital) following a shoot-out,” spokesman Colonel Tamer al-Rifai says in the statement.

— AFP

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