A military helicopter conducts an aerial patrol above Sheikh Zuwayed city, northern Sinai, Egypt in this May 25, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih/Files
EL-ARISH/CAIRO (Reuters) - One afternoon in mid-April, a Bedouin woman screamed inside her single-storey, stone house in the Egyptian village of al-Taweela. The screams were so loud that neighbours took notice, said Ali Abu-Freij, a resident in the northern Sinai village. He and other locals saw four men in masks speed away from the house in a Toyota Land Cruiser.
"When we went to the home to see what happened, we were surprised to find the husband tied up and saying that armed men had kidnapped his wife," said Abu-Freij.
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