Leader of al-Qaida-inspired group killed in Sinai

Police in Egypt today killed the leader of an al-Qaida-inspired militant group who was wanted for last month’s Sinai bombings that killed 21 people.

Nasser Khamis el-Mallahi, the head of Egypt’s Monotheism and Jihad, was shot dead and his accomplice captured in a gun battle in an olive grove this morning, said the commander of North Sinai security police, Lieutenant General Essam el-Sheikh.