The Interior Ministry said today that 11 of the suspected militants were killed in a shootout on a farm in Ismailia province. It says six suspects were arrested there.
Military spokesman Col. Tamer el-Rifai says three suspected militants were killed in central Sinai. He did not elaborate.
Friday's attack on a mosque in northern Sinai was the deadliest assault by Islamic extremists in Egypt's modern history. The dead included 27 children and another 128 people were wounded.
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