The Egyptian military announced on Wednesday that four “very dangerous takfiri” extremists were killed in the ongoing Sinai 2018 operation to rid the peninsula of terrorists. Dozens of suspects have also been detained in the latest development in the campaign that was launched earlier this month, said the army. In the eleventh statement released since the start of the operation, the military said that the “takfiris” were killed after a shootout with security forces that were carrying out a raid against their location. Several arms and an amount of ammunition was confiscated from their possession. A total of 112 fugitives were arrested and legal measures have been taken against them, said that statement released on the military’s official Facebook page. Thirteen vehicles and 27 motorcycles were also seized and 350 hideouts and warehouses have been destroyed during the security forces’ sweep of the area. The air force meanwhile struck eight terrorist targets during the ongoing Sinai operation. The military said that the navy is continuing with its search of all vessels to ensure that they are not transporting terrorists or smuggling weapons. President Abdul Fattah al-Sis ordered the armed forces in November to defeat extremists in Sinai within three months after an attack on a mosque killed more than 300 people, the deadliest such violence in the Arab world’s most populous country.