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Ten militants killed and 20 injured in Sinai: Security source Militant casualties expected to increase as security forces continue crackdown against militancy in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
Ten militants have been killed and 20 injured during a military crackdown in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday, a security source told Reuters' Aswat Masriya. Another 15 have been arrested. The source said that militant casualties are expected to increase as Egypt's security forces continue its crackdown against militancy in Sinai, where violent attacks on security checkpoints and facilities have become frequent since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. The military campaign has largely targeted militants in North Sinai's towns of Sheikh Zwayed and Rafah, where daily attacks have killed dozens of army and police personnel since Morsi's popularly-backed army ouster in July. In August, 25 police conscripts were killed when militants ambushed a personnel carrier near Rafah. Sinai has suffered from a security vacuum since the ouster of former president Hosni Mubarak over two years ago, but militant attacks have increased in frequency since July. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/81030.aspx