Egyptian militant group beheads three, shoots another

An Egyptian militant group has released a video showing beheading of three persons accused of collaborating with Israel's national intelligence agency Mossad.
The Sinai-based militant outfit Ansar Bayt Al-Maqdes (ABM) released the video yesterday which showed confessions of three beheaded persons for working with Mossad while another one, who was shot dead, saying he operated with the Egyptian Army.
The video featured parts of a September speech by IS spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani in which he urged the Sinai militants to kill Egyptian security personnel.
The group previously released a video of beheading four others in August who they claimed had provided information about the group to Israel.

The group has claimed several of the militant attacks against Egyptian police and army which increased after the ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
Many policemen and soldiers have been killed in the attacks.

In July, militants attacked a military checkpoint in Al-Wadi Al-Gedid governorate in southern Egypt, killing 21 Egyptian border guards and injured four others.
The military has launched security campaigns in the area, arrested suspects and demolished houses that belong to terrorists, including those facilitating tunnels leading to the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Egyptian security forces in the Suez Canal city of Port Said said yesterday that they have exposed a recruitment cell for the Islamic State militant group (IS).

After being arrested, members of the cell have confessed that they work for IS, a police official source told state news agency MENA.
The cell is comprised of eight people, four of whom are currently in Syria where IS operates, source said.
Egypt has recently joined a US-led coalition formed to combat IS's growing threat, after the group seized large swathes of land in Syria and Iraq.