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Gunmen Kill Three Police Officers in Egypt

Latest attack in the Sinai Peninsula

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(Reuters) - Gunmen killed three policemen in Egypt's volatile Sinai Peninsula on Monday, security sources said, and an Islamist militant group released a videoof an earlier drive-by shooting of an army colonel.

Security sources confirmed that gunmen had killed the colonel, identified as Mohamed al-Komi, on August 14 on a desert highway near the Suez Canal city of Ismailia.