A low ranking policeman was killed by unknown assailants in North Sinai’s El-Arish, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday.
According to MENA, policeman Salem Mohamed Salem died after he was shot by the unknown gunmen in the vicinity of El-Arish' fourth police station.
The body was transferred to El-Arish Military Hospital. Police forceswere combing the area in search ofthe assailants.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Egypt’s army and police forces have been battling a North Sinai-based Islamist insurgency that intensified following the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
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