Egypt police officer killed in IS attack on Sinai monastery
The attack follows the killing of 45 people on Palm Sunday in twin church bombings in Tanta and Alexandria
St Catherine's monastery in Egypt's south Sinai, where a policeman was killed and three others wounded on 18 April (AFP)
A policeman was killed and four others wounded on Tuesday when gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint near St Catherine's monastery in Egypt's Sinai, the Egyptian interior ministry said.
IS's Amaq propaganda arm claimed the attack on social media.
"A number of gunmen... facing one of the checkpoints on the road to St Catherine's in south Sinai shot at security forces at the checkpoint," the interior ministry said in a statement.
Security forces returned fire, wounding some of the attackers and "forcing them to flee", it said.
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As ISIS is being defeated more in Syria and Iraq, they are attacking more elsewhere, one analyst said.
