Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim Cairo – Amr Wali Egyptian Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim was forced,on Monday to leave the funeral of a security officer killed in the Sinai Peninsula after mourners began chanting against President Mohamed Morsi.
Ibrahim and other senior ministry officials left the funeral, held at El-Shorta Mosque in Cairo\'s Al-Darasa district, after prayers but before the military ceremony.
A security official, Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Abu-Shakra, a 30-year-old member of the counter-terrorism department at the national internal security agency, was killed on Sunday by suspected militants in Al-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula.
Relatives and colleagues of Abu-Shakra chanted \"Leave!\" in reference to President Mohammed Morsi.
Militants have stepped up attacks in the Sinai Peninsula amid a breakdown in law and order following the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior condemned in its official Facebook page, that Morsi congratulated the Egyptian football team for winning over Zimbabwe, while failing to issue a statement about the killing of Abu-Shakra by terrorists. Abu-Shakra’s family also accused Morsi of killing their son while doing his work in Sinai.
Suspected militants also recently shot dead a counter-terrorism police officer in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday.