Alwaght- A top Egyptian army officer was shot dead when leaving his home near the capital Cairo on Saturday.
The victim identified as Brigadier General Adel Ragaei, who commanded an armored division deployed in Sinai, was shot outside his home in the Obour City suburb.
"At 6 am they killed him. I can’t tell you if it was six or twelve bullets. It was before he could get into his car,” sister-in-law Huda Zein Elabedine told AFP.
No group has yet claimed the attack but terrorist groups affiliated with the ISIS group are waging a fierce insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israeli regime and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
They have also claimed attacks in or near Cairo, including the abduction and murder of a Croatian oil worker and the bombing of the Italian consulate in 2015.
