An Egyptian police conscript was shot dead on Saturday afternoon in an attack by unknown gunmen in Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, security sources said. 

Moustafa Gomaa, 21, was guarding a government building when he was shot at by a sniper rifle. Gomaa was transferred to the hospital for immediate treatment but he passed away from chest wounds, a security source told Aswat Masriya.

In Sinai, policemen and army soldiers are attacked with bombs and grenades on an almost daily basis. Around 1000 policemen and soldiers were killed there since July following the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi