Egypt: Days after terror attack, 19 terrorists taken out in Air-strike.

(Cairo) After an attack on a checkpoint that killed a policeman near south Sinai's Saint Catherine's Monastery earlier this week. The Egyptian authorities have stated that in follow up operations they have killed 19 Islamic terrorists in air-strikes across the Sinai.

After an attack on a checkpoint that killed a policeman near south Sinai's Saint Catherine's Monastery earlier this week. The Egyptian authorities have stated that in follow up operations they have killed 19 Islamic terrorists in air-strikes across the Sinai.

The operations in conjunction with heightened security before the Pope visits Egypt next week come after a spate of Islamist violence targeting Egypt's Christian minority in recent months, the most serious being the attacks on Churches on Easter Friday which saw over 40 people murdered.