CAIRO, July 27 (Xinhua) -- One militant was killed on Thursday in an Egyptian military raid in North Sinai province bordering Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip, the Egyptian military spokesman said in a statement.
"The raid killed an extremist and detected and destroyed five hiding places of extremist elements, 23 motorbikes, 14 explosive devices prepared to target patrolling forces," Military Spokesman Tamer al-Refaay said in the statement.
Refaay noted that the raid, which took place in cooperation with the air forces and the police, marks the tenth day of a massive security campaign that killed at least 40 militants since its beginning in North Sinai.
The raid also seized an amount of weapons, ammunition and some computers and documents related to the extremists, he added.
Egypt has been suffering growing terror activities following the military removal of former Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013 in response to mass protests against his one-year rule and his now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group.
Most of the anti-government terrorist operations were claimed by a Sinai-based group loyal to the regional Islamic State (IS) militant group.
The attacks had been centered in restive North Sinai before they prevailed nationwide, killing hundreds of policemen and soldiers over the past few years.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian military in cooperation with the police killed hundreds of militants and arrested a similar number of suspects as part of the country's anti-terror war declared in 2013 by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, the army chief then, following Morsi's removal.
