Two policemen killed in Egypt's North Sinai province

ANI  |  Cairo [Egypt] 

Two policemen were killed in two separate attacks in Egypt's North Sinai province on Tuesday.

As per media reports, unknown gunmen shot dead two policemen in two separate attacks in the same city.

A massive manhunt operation is underway to nab the culprits.

In a similar attack on August 9, unidentified gunmen had killed a police officer and injured two others in Egypt's Southern Qena province.

Hundreds of Egyptian security personnel have been killed in militant attacks across Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which has remained the epicenter of a deadly militant insurgency since mid-2013, when Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first freely-elected president, was ousted in a military coup.

is experiencing wave of terrorist attacks which target the security men since the ouster of the Morsi in response to mass protest against his one-year in rule.

The attacks that have killed hundreds of military and police men were mostly claimed by Islamic State branch in Sinai.

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