The bodies of six Egyptians who were killed in a triple blast in eastern Libya on Friday arrived to Egypt on Saturday.
Militants believed to belong to the Libya division of the Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq claimed responsibility for three suicide bombings in the town of Qubbah on Friday. The explosions left 42 people killed.
Mohamed Metwally, director of Egypt's western Salloum border crossing, told state-run news agency MENA that the six bodies crossed the border on Saturday. Three of those killed hailed from the governorate of Beheira, while the three others are from the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assiut.
Egypt launched airstrikes in Libya on Monday in response to the beheading of 20 Coptic Egyptians at the hands of Libyan militants. The Egyptian military said in a statement the strikes targeted training sites and weapons and ammunition storage sites belonging to Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria, located inside Libya.
