An Egyptian court today
found seven people culpable for the death of 25 policemen in Egypt North Sinai
Province in 2013.
The Cairo Criminal Court
delivered death verdict against the seven persons including prominent Islamist
militant Adel Habara.
The convicted criminals
were said to have in August 2013, attacked two buses sending police recruits
from their base in Tawilia village to their homes to spend vacation by shooting
the policemen excessively. As a result,
25 of them were confirmed dead and many others injured.
Adel Habara
Habara already have two
death sentences on him over bomb attacks in Taba in 2004 and Dahab in 2006 in which
42 people were killed.
The defendants are also
accused of killing police personnel in the Delta governorate of Sharqiya as
well collaborating with fanatic al-Qaeda group in Iraq.
Egypt has been facing a
rising wave of terrorist attacks since the overthrow of former Islamist
President Mohamed Morsi by the military in July 2013.
The attacks targeted
security men and their premises in the restive Sinai Peninsula and then
extended to hit the capital and provinces across the country.
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