North Sinai security chief sacked over three Egyptian troop deaths

Egyptian Interior Minister Ahmed Gemal e-Din Fitr sacked the North Sinai security chief over the deaths of three Egyptian soldiers in a Salalifist ambush in El Arish Saturday. The minister toured the ambush scene and tried to calm angry Egyptian security personnel who blocked streets and accused his ministry of sending them out to fight terrorists with insufficient arms and others tools of war.

 

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