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Egypt police kill gunman linked to attack near St. Catherine's Monastery

By REUTERS

MAY 2, 2017 17:34

CAIRO - Egyptian security forces have tracked down and killed a gunman suspected of involvement in an attack near St Catherine's Monastery in southern Sinai that left one police officer dead and three wounded, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack on a police checkpoint about 800 meters (yards) from the monastery, one of the world's most important Christian sites.

Security forces and local Bedouins followed the attackers' escape route and killed the suspect in a shoot-out. Police found an automatic weapon and ammunition, the ministry said.

Tuesday's attack came 10 days before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt and just over a week after two deadly suicide bombings on Christian churches, also claimed by Islamic State, killed 45 people.

St. Catherine's, founded in the sixth century and located at the foot of Mount Sinai, is one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site. It is part of the Eastern Orthodox church.

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