Egypt police say kill 3 wanted for Dahab blasts

CAIRO, June 2 (Reuters) Egyptian police killed three men wanted for involvement in bombings that killed 20 people in the Sinai resort of Dahab in April, an Interior Ministry statement carried by the state MENA news agency said today.

The men, all brothers, died in a gunfight after police laid siege to their hideout on the outskirts of El Arish in northern Sinai, the statement said, adding that a fourth brother had died during the Dahab blasts.

The deaths take the total number of Dahab suspects killed by police on the hunt for fugitives to 10, according to previous Interior Ministry statements.

Authorities have blamed a group of Sinai bedouin with militant Islamist views, named by Egypt as Tawhid wal Jihad (One God and Jihad), for a series of bomb attacks in the region.

The group has never issued a statement or claimed responsibility for attacks.

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