MILITAN di Mesir hari ini mengeksekusi 25 polisi eksekusi dalam penyergapan di Semenanjung Sinai, sebagai dampak dari kekacauan keamanan dan politik di Mesir.
Serangan terhadap polisi tampaknya berlangsung Senin pagi ketika dua minibus yang membawa perwira yang sedang cuti melintasi sebuah desa dekat kota perbatasan Rafah.
Para tersangka militan memaksa dua kendaraan untuk berhenti, memerintahkan polisi keluar dan memaksa mereka berbaring di tanah sebelum mereka menembak mereka sampai mati, menurut pejabat keamanan.
Sinai, yang menandai perbatasan antara Israel, Mesir dan Jalur Gaza, telah lama dianggap sebagai salah satu kawasan konflik utama di Timur Tengah.
Tindakan penyergapan dan serangan hampir setiap hari dilakukan oleh militan Islam sejak Presiden Mesir Mohammed Morsi digulingkan bulan lalu dalam kudeta militer, seperti dilansir Mail Online.
Beberapa jam setelah serangan di dekat Rafah, tersangka militan ditembak mati oleh polisi besar ketika berdiri di luar sebuah bank di kota el-Arish, Sinai utara.
MILITANT in Egypt today killed 25 policemen execution-style in an ambush in the Sinai Peninsula, as the chaos in the country continued.
The attack on police apparently took place this morning as two minibuses carrying off-duty officers were driving through a village near the border town of Rafah.
The suspected militants forced the two vehicles to stop, ordered the policemen out and forced them to lie on the ground before they shot them to death, according to security officials.
Sinai, which marks the border between Israel, Egypt and the Gaza Strip, has long been considered one of the main flashpoints in the Middle East.
It has witnessed almost daily attacks by Islamist militants ever since Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi was deposed last month in a military coup.
A few hours after the attack near Rafah, suspected militants shot to death a police major as he stood guard outside a bank in the city of el-Arish, also in northern Sinai.