CAIRO (AFP) 16 May 2015 – Gunmen shot dead three Egyptian judges Saturday in the strife-torn Sinai Peninsula, where security forces are battling an Islamist insurgency spearheaded by an affiliate of the Islamic State group, police said.
The shooting wounded three other judges in North Sinai’s provincial capital El-Arish.
Police said the judges came under attack while they were travelling by car from the canal city of Ismailiya to El-Arish for a court hearing.
Following the attack, the first of its kind in Sinai, Egypt’s interior ministry put police on high alert across the country and suspended all leave, a ministry official said.