Another officer shot in Sharqiya

Unidentified attackers shot live ammunition at a military colonel in Sharqiya, northern Egypt, the state run EgyNews reported on Tuesday. 

Essam Mohamed al-Mahalawy, a colonel in the Armed Forces, was walking back to his village near Zagazig, the capital city of Sharqiya, when attackers on a motorbike fired at him. He was immediately transferred to a hospital.

The Delta city has seen a number of attacks against security figures in the aftermath of the Muslim Brotherhood's ouster by the military last summer. 

Attackers killed Abdel Rahman Aboul Ela, a police conscript, on Monday, as he was headed back to his house in Zagazig.

On Saturday, attackers also killed sergeant Mohamed Abdel Salam of the National Security office in Sharqiya. Sources told privately owned Al-Shorouk on Tuesday that Abdel Salam was known to people in the area as a National Security officer and was targeted as a result.

The source added that there are no infiltrations within the security apparatus in Sharqiya, and that the only State Security officer who had alleged connections with the Brotherhood, namely with businessman Khairat al-Shater, was transferred out of National Security. 

Thousands took to the streets of Sharqiya in anger on Monday to mourn Abdel Salam. Chants reported during the funeral include: "No God but Allah, the Brothers are the enemies of Allah," the privately owned Al-Masry Al-Youm reported. 

Sharqiya is known to be a place with a certain Brotherhood presence, but does contain a lot of opposition to the group as well. In ongoing protests against the rule of ousted President and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, who hails from Sharqiya, the then-Islamist regime often accused police forces of not intervening to stop protesters, which allowed recurrent clashes to descend into further violence.