Top Operative With Group Accused of Downing Russian Jet Shot Dead By Egyptian Police

Egypt’s fightback against ISIS begins: Top operative with group accused of downing Russian jet is shot dead… as Putin crony accuses the U.S. of complicity in bombing

A top Islamic State operative of the group suspected of bombing the Russian jet over Egypt has been killed by police in Cairo.

Egypt’s interior ministry said Ashraf Ali Ali Hassanein al-Gharabli was shot dead in an exchange of fire after police tried to arrest him.

Hassanein was one of the most sought after militants in the country and had featured in a wanted notice by police in January 2014, months into a militant insurgency centred in the Sinai Peninsula.

He was implicated in a string of attacks including the bombing of the Italian consulate in Cairo last July and the murders of a Croat and an American.