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Egypt hangs 6 IS-aligned jihadists
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEgyptian authorities hanged six men convicted of killing soldiers, police say, ignoring appeals to spare them amid allegations two of them had been in custody at the time of their alleged crimes.
A military court upheld the death sentences last March, following a trial in which the six were convicted of carrying out the attacks in the months after the army’s overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.
Prosecutors said they were members of the Sinai Peninsular-based Ansar Beit al-Maqdis jihadist group, which late last year pledged allegiance to the Islamic State organisation.
The sentence was carried out by hanging in a Cairo jail, according to officials.
— AFP
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