Cairo (AFP) – Egyptian jihadist group Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis denied on Sunday that Shady al-Menai has been killed, after security sources said they killed the man identified as its leader.
The group also denied Menai was its leader, in a statement published on Islamist militant Internet forums accompanied by a picture of him reading a report about his "death" on a laptop.
The picture could not be immediately authenticated.
Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, based in the Sinai Peninsula, has spearheaded attacks that killed hundreds of policemen and soldiers since July last year.
The group had been behind a large number of bloody attacks against police and army forces since the ouster of former president Mohamed Morsy. It was behind the attempted assassination of Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahi in September 2013.
