CAIRO: Gunmen shot dead a candidate in Egypt’s parliamentary elections in North Sinai on Saturday, officials said, where terrorists are waging an insurgency against the government.

Mostafa Abdel Rahman, a candidate for Salafi Al-Nur party which is seen as pro-government, was gunned down by two assailants on a motorbike outside his home in the town of El-Arish, police officials said.

Nur Party Secretary-General Galal Al-Murra confirmed his death to AFP. Nur was the only prominent radical party to emerge unscathed from a crackdown following the overthrow of President Muhammad Mursi in 2013.

With Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood blacklisted, and thousands of its activists killed or detained, the Nur party remained as the main radical grouping contesting the parliamentary elections that began on Oct. 18.

Abdel Rahman, who also acted as the North Sinai secretary general for the part, was the first politician killed by militants in the two-year insurgency since Mursi’s overthrow.

On Saturday, Daesh claimed credit for two roadside bombings in El-Arish over the past 48 hours that killed four policemen.

It also said it had planted a bomb at a Cairo intersection flanked by hotels near the pyramids, which wounded four people when police tried to defuse it on Friday.