CAIRO Clayton Keller Jersey Sale , July 15 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian police killed four militants in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Saturday, confirming them as terrorists escaping from restive North Sinai, state-run Al-Ahram news website reported.


The raid was carried out after verifying their involvement in the recent assassination of one of Sinai's tribe chiefs, and receiving tipoff on their hideouts in a desert area in Ismailia Shane Doan Coyotes Jersey , said the report.


The four terrorist elements opened fire at the police upon their approaching and were killed in exchange of fire, it added.


Four machine guns have been retrieved, but "nothing was found to identify them," the report said.


The raid came a day after a terrorist attack on a checkpoint in Giza killed five security men.


A similar security campaign was launched also in an Ismailia desert area last week Clayton Keller Coyotes Jersey , which killed 14 gunmen who have been wanted over involvement in terror operations targeting policemen and soldiers in North Sinai, bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.


Egypt has been facing a rising wave of terrorist activities following the military removal of former Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and his now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.


Terror attacks had been centered in restive North Sinai before they prevailed nationwide, killing hundreds of policemen and soldiers over the past few years.


On July 8, a car-bomb terrorist attack on a checkpoint in North Sinai's Rafah killed and wounded 26 soldiers Cheap Shane Doan Jersey , according to the Egyptian military spokesman, while the security forces killed at least 40 of the terrorists.


Terrorists have recently started to target the Coptic minority and their churches across the country via bombings that killed dozens of them since late December 2016.


Most of the terrorist operations were claimed by a Sinai-based group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) militant group.


Meanwhile, the Egyptian military in cooperation with the police killed hundreds of terrorists and arrested a similar number of suspects as part of the country's anti-terror war declared in 2013 by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who was then the army chief Cheap Clayton Keller Jersey , following Morsi's removal.


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