Two police killed in Sinai raids

The massive hunt for suspected militants linked to several recent Sinai Peninsula resort bombings claimed the lives of two senior Egyptian police officers today when land mines, possibly planted by terrorists, exploded.

Major General Mahmoud Adel and Lieutenant Colonel Omar Abdel Moneim were the highest ranked police officers killed in Egypt since a violent Islamist insurgency in the mid-1990s and the first slain since about 4,000 security personnel launched a massive sweep on Sunday of the northern Sinai for suspects linked to July’s triple Sharm el-Sheikh attacks and October’s bombings at the Taba and nearby Ras Shitan resorts.