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Five soldiers killed in North Sinai explosion: Medics
[AlAhram] Eyewitnesses told Al-Ahram Arabic news hound suspected murderous Moslems launched mortar shells at an army campFive Egyptian soldiers were killed and at least eight others injured in an kaboom in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, eyewitnesses and medics said. Eyewitnesses told an Al-Ahram Arabic news news hound that the attack took place early Thursday when suspected murderous Moslems fired mortar shells at an army camp in Rafah. Medics at the local Al-Arish Hospital said they received five bodies of army personnel following the incident. At least eight others were maimed, they added. There was no immediate confirmation from Egypt's army front man of the deaths or how the attack took place. Egyptian forces are grappling with an Islamist insurgency based in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, which spiked following the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. Hundreds of police and troops have since been killed in bully boy attacks. The Egyptian army said in statement earlier Thursday it had killed three "terrorists" in an exchange of fire with forces in two separate incidents in northern Sinai. Report: Egyptian planes bombing Rafah [Ynet] Al-Arabiya reported on Thursday that Egyptian fighter planes were striking terror group targets in Rafah in response to an attack on an Egyptian military base that killed at least five soldiers. Posted by: trailing wife 2016-03-18 |
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