CAIRO — Libyan militant Abdel-Rehim Al-Mesmari was executed on Saturday following his conviction of carrying out a deadly attack on security forces in Bahariya Oasis in 2017, a video statement by the Egyptian armed forces said. The Western Desert attack occurred in October 2017 when Al-Fath Al-Islami, of which Al-Mesmari was a member, ambushed a police patrol in the oasis of Bahariya, killing 16 and injuring 13. His execution comes nearly a year after he was sentenced to death by an Egyptian military court in November 2019. Twenty others were found to be innocent, while 32 individuals were sentenced to life in prison for their role in the attack. Al-Mesmari was captured in 2017 during a raid on the group blamed for the deadly attack in which authorities have said 16 policemen were killed. The Military Criminal Court in 2019 sentenced the Libyan national to death and another Twenty others were found to be innocent. Upon being captured, Al-Mesmari told authorities that he adopted extremist ideas following the revolution on former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. He later joined a group in Egypt headed by former Egyptian army officer Emadeddine Abdulhamid, also known as Sheikh Hatem. Both men were reportedly working for officer-turned- extremist Hesham Ashmawi, who was executed in Egypt in March 2020. — Agencies