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Daesh executes 5 Egyptians it accuses of spying for army

By AFP - Feb 11,2017 - Last updated at Feb 11,2017

An elderly Palestinian woman waits for travel permits to cross into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing after it was opened by Egyptian authorities for humanitarian cases, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday (AFP photo)

CAIRO — The Daesh terror group in Egypt claims to have executed five men it accuses of spying for the army, which is battling the extremists in the Sinai Peninsula.

In a series of photos published Friday on the secure messaging app Telegram, five men presented as "spies" are seen lying face down on the ground before a militant shoots them in the back of their heads with an assault rifle.

Militants have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the military overthrow of president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 unleashed a bloody crackdown on his supporters.

The crackdown decimated the Islamist movement and killed hundreds of his followers, and set off an insurgency that has killed hundreds of security personnel.

Most of the attacks have taken place in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip, but attacks have also been carried out in other areas including Cairo.

The Egyptian army announced on Friday that it had killed "500 terrorists" since it launched a wide-ranging security operation in the Sinai in September 2015. 

 

In October 2015, Daesh claimed the downing of a plane carrying Russian tourists home from the Sinai resort of Sharm El Sheikh, which killed all 224 people on board. 

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