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Has Egypt failed to secure Sinai?

Successive terrorist operations in just 24 hours clearly reveal the plan of terrorist groups to intensify terrorist attacks in the northern Sinai Peninsula.
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CAIRO — Unknown gunmen killed three citizens in the Sinai Peninsula on July 18, an Egyptian security source was quoted as saying by the German Press Agency (DPA).

The anonymous source said that armed groups set up an ambush on the international road near Hasna city in central Sinai in the afternoon and killed three citizens before fleeing to the desert of central Sinai. Witnesses told DPA that an armed group cut off the international road, stopped vehicles and forced three citizens to step out of a car and shot them.

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