epa04220122 (FILE) Armored personnel carriers (APC) of the Egyptian Army patrol on a road close to El Gorah in northeastern Sinai, Egypt, 21 May 2013. According to media reports on 23 May 2014, Shadi al-Menei, an Islamist leader of the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis militant group was shot dead in the Sinai Peninsula. The militant group was linked to al-Qaeda-inspired groups and alleged to be responsible of terrorist attacks killing more than 200 Egyptian soldiers since July 2013 after Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi was ousted. EPA/STR