On Sunday, Egyptian military forces announced they had killed 10 “extremely dangerous” terrorist elements during a raid on a terrorist checkpoint in North Sinai province.
Egyptian military spokesman Colonel Arkan Harb Gharib Abdel Hafez said in a statement that the elimination of terrorist elements took place after a firefight between the terrorist group and law enforcement forces.
He called the terrorist elements “extremely dangerous”.
The armed forces found in the terrorist group, according to the statement, a number of weapons, ammunition, hand grenades, explosive belts, grenade launchers and grenade launchers, a large amount of TNT explosive, as well as a number of wireless devices.
The statement added that “the bodies of the terrorist elements were kept pending the necessary legal action against them.”
According to the statement, “one of the affected terrorist elements was apprehended before he managed to escape, as a machine gun and a group of cartridges were confiscated from him, and legal measures are being taken by the competent investigating authorities.”
