Police in Cairo have killed a leader of a regional Islamic State leader based in the Sinai Peninsula, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The deceased leader identified as Ashraf Ali al-Gharably, was killed in a firefight with police forces in the northeastern el-Marg neighborhood of Cairo.
Police spotted him as he was moving in a vehicle and gunned him down after he resisted arrest.
The prominent terrorist figure belonged to the Ansar Bait al-Maqdis group, which re-branded itself as the Sinai Province of the Islamic State after pledging allegiance to the Syria and Iraq-based terrorist organisation.
