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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Two men on a motorcycle gun down parliamentary hopeful Mostafa Abdelrahman of the Salafist Nour party in El Arish</span></h2>
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<span style="line-height: 25.6px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Gunmen have shot and killed a conservative parliamentary candidate in Egypt's Sinai province, security sources said.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Mostafa Abdelrahman, who belonged to the Salafist Nour party, was gunned down outside his home in El Arish early on Saturday morning.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Two men on a motorcycle fired on the politician, just days after Egypt held parliamentary elections, the Reuters news agency reported.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>A separate roadside bomb attack on Saturday left three Egyptian police officers dead, also in El Arish.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The attacks are suspected to be the work of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's local affiliate, which calls itself Sinai Province.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The group has claimed responsibility for a number of attacks on politicians, members of the judiciary, and security forces in an armed campaign that has escalated since Egypt 2011 uprising.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Nour party, though religious in its outlook, has forced away many of its previous supporters by alligning itself with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, after his overthrow of former-president Mohamed Morsi in a coup in 2013.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Morsi belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood, which worked closely with the Nour party before the coup, but has since been proscribed by Egypt's new rulers.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Many of Morsi's supporters and sympathisers, which include many Salafists, have been caught up in the security force's crackdown on the opposition.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Nour party's leaders have largely avoided persecution by the Egyptian state.</b></span></div>
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GUNMEN KILL CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE IN EGYPT'S SINAI

Two men on a motorcycle gun down parliamentary hopeful Mostafa Abdelrahman of the Salafist Nour party in El Arish Gunmen have shot and...

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