Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt's most active militant group, claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that hit a bus and a police checkpoint at the city of al-Tur in South Sinai on Friday, killing one soldier and the two attackers, as well as wounding 10 others.
“We will not calm down till we achieve retribution for Muslim blood,” the group said in a statement on Sunday posted on several affiliated internet forums.
The group urged Egyptians to “rise up against the tyrannical regime” instead of “being content with peaceful mobility that only brought them the death of their best youth and the arrest of their women.”
The group had claimed responsibility for the majority of bloody attacks against police and army forces since the overthrow of former president Mohamed Morsy. It was also behind the attempted assassination of Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim in September 2013.
The group was branded a terrorist organization by the US in early April.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
