Shelling kills 5 civilians, including children, in Egypt’s Sinai
At least 5 civilians, including an eight-month-old baby, have been killed in shelling in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula, Press TV reports.
Medical sources at al-Arish Hospital said on Tuesday that they had received the dead bodies of 5 civilians who lost their lives in a shelling of a neighborhood south of the city of Sheik Zuweid in northern Sinai.
According to the medics, among the bodies were those of a six- and a nine-year-old.
Two others, including a ten-year-old child, were also wounded in the shelling
It is unclear whether the shelling was carried out by the army or militant groups, which are fighting one another in the Sinai Peninsula
Dozens of civilians have been killed in crossfire between the Egyptian army and Takfiri groups, mainly Velayat Sinai militants. Formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the Takfiri group pledged allegiance to ISIL last year.
Terrorist activities have been increasing for nearly two years in northern Sinai.
‘Government reprisal’
Meanwhile, the Anti-Coup Alliance in Egypt, led by the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement, condemned on Tuesday what it called the “aggression” against political detainees and their relatives in the province of Sharqiya.
In a statement, the alliance said the “aggression" was an act of “reprisal” by security forces following the killing of a policeman in the province earlier in the day. The alliance condemned the shooting of the policeman by unknown assailants in the province, located some 80 kilometers northeast of Cairo, and said that it “had nothing to do” with the incident.
The policeman was on his way to the Abu Hammad police station when he was shot in the chest and neck. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident yet.
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