An IED blast claimed the lives of a senior officer and three members of a Bedouin pro-government militia on Sunday, in the latest attack on security forces in the restive North Sinai.
Militants belonging to the Islamic State group remain active in the Gelbana village which is close to the Suez Canal and 480km from this year’s Cop27 UN summit at Sharm El-Sheikh.
A security source told Middle East Eye that the senior officer was Lieutenant Colonel Assem Mohamed Essameldin, head of the 103rd Thunderbolt Battalion, one of the Egyptian army’s most renowned units, who died on site after sustaining critical injuries.
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Source: Middle East Eye