CNN Attacks in Egypt leave at least 12 dead At least 12 people were killed Sunday, and more injured, in separate attacks on a police station, a checkpoint and along a highway in Egypt's northern Sinai, authorities said. Six people, including one civilian, were killed when a car bomb exploded near the police station in Al-Arish, capital of North Sinai, Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghafar told Ahram Online. He said 40 people were injured. Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, an ISIS affiliate, claimed responsibility for the attack, which came hours after another operation that the group also claimed. Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/12/middleeast/egypt-violence/ The Sun Daily Egypt to punish tunnel diggers with life in jail Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday issued a decree making the digging or use of illegal tunnels in border areas punishable by life in jail. The army has intensified efforts to destroy such underground tunnels connecting the restive Sinai Peninsula to the Palestinian Gaza Strip, since the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013. It says hundreds have already been destroyed and a one-kilometre buffer zone built across the border with Gaza to prevent the infiltration of militants, and smuggling of goods and weapons. "Anyone who digs or prepares or uses a road, a passage, or an underground tunnel in the country's border areas with the purpose of connecting with a foreign entity or state, its citizens or residents... will face life in prison," said the decree published in the official gazette. Read more: http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1382262 Turkish Weekly Egypt denounces Turkish comments on death verdicts Egyptian authorities on Sunday dismissed Turkish criticism of a raft of death sentences recently slapped against leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood group. "The Foreign Ministry expresses its strong denouncement of the unacceptable interference in the affairs of the Egyptian judiciary by the Turkish Foreign Ministry," the ministry said in a statement. On Saturday, an Egyptian court sentenced Muslim Brotherhood top leader Mohamed Badie and 13 others to death for violence-related charges. Read more: http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/183281/egypt-denounces-turkish-comments-on-death-verdicts.html
