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One killed, 10 arrested in raid on extremist group in Egyptâ€™s Sinai

15 August 2011 23:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. One was killed and 10 others arrested in a raid by military and police forces in Egyptâ€™s Sinai, security sources told Xinhua on Monday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Around 1,000 troops and police were deployed in Egyptâ€™s Arish over the weekend to restore order in the area which has seen repeated attacks on a gas pipeline leading to Israel and Jordan.

Militants called for changing Sinai into an Islamic zone and expelling security forces recently in the Arish town.

Since February, the pipeline for gas exports in Arish has been bombed five times. At the end of July, more than 100 militants attempted to storm a police station in Arish and exchanged fire with police and military forces, leaving six people dead.