A leader in Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate was killed in an air raid last month, the Egyptian military said on Sunday, like reported by ynetnews.com.
“Following the results of the air raid on March 18… and upon the security apparatus’s investigation, it was revealed that Salem Salmy al-Hamadeen, Aka Abu Anas al-Ansari, was killed,” the military spokesman said in a statement.
Hamadeen was one of the founders of the group which was formerly called Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, now called Egypt’s Sinai Province, and was responsible for arming and training militants. He died after being wounded in the air raid, the statement said.
