Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Egypt hangs 5 prisoners: officials

Egyptian prison authorities executed Tuesday five inmates who had been sentenced to death, four of them over a bombing that killed military cadets, security officials said.


The hangings came days after the execution of 15 inmates convicted of attacking police and the military in the largest mass execution in Egypt in recent memory.

Four of those executed on Tuesday had been sentenced to death by a military court over a 2015 the bombing at a stadium north of Cairo that killed three military cadets.

The fifth had been sentenced to death over a criminal matter, the sources said without elaborating.
 (dailystar.com.lb/AFP)
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Egypt hangs 5 prisoners: officials

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