Egypt's police general shot dead in Sinai
Xinhua, September 20, 2015 Adjust font size:
Unidentified militants gunned down an Egyptian police general in North Sinai's city of Arish on early hours of Sunday, official security sources said.
Ahmed Abdel Satar, 47, was the second senior police officer that has been killed in the past three days in North Sinai province, the base of the Islamic State (IS) anti-security operations.
The assailants fled the scene after the attack, the source added.
On Wednesday evening, Khaled Kamal Osman, another police general, was killed as he inspected a police unit by a drive-by shooting claimed by the jihadists' Egyptian affiliate IS Sinai Province.
Egypt has been suffering surge of militant attacks against army and police forces since the ouster of the Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in 2013 by the army in response to mass protests against his rule.
Hundreds of security men were killed in the attacks, as militants claimed revenge for their fellows who have been killed in a harsh crackdown by the government on Morsi's supporters.
Most of the attacks have been claimed by Ansar Bayet Al-Maqdes, who declared loyalty to the IS and changed its name into Sinai province in 2014.
The army launched a wide-scale operation to uproot the militants' hideouts in Sinai and says it has killed 521 militants over the past 13 days. Endit