CAIRO 

A total of 112 militants from Ansar Beit al-Maqdis group have been killed and injured and 69 others arrested in a week, the Egyptian army said Thursday.

In a Facebook statement, army spokesman said that 49 tunnel openings had been destroyed and 104 rifles and 12,500 bullets had been seized in the Sinai Peninsula, northeastern Egypt, in the past week.

The Egyptian army accuses the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis of being allied to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was branded a terrorist group by the government in December.

The Egyptian army has launched an all-out crackdown on militant groups in Sinai for several months now.

"The army continued to strike to uproot terrorism in Sinai and raid criminal hotbeds in several provinces to arrest criminals and wanted individuals," the spokesman said.

Egypt has been rocked by a series of attacks in recent months, many of which were claimed by the Ansar Beit al-Maqdis group.

By Islam Mosaad

englishnews@aa.com.tr