Police lieutenant, soldier killed in IED explosion in North Sinai
[AlAhram] A Central Security Forces police first lieutenant and a solider were killed when an IED detonated as a police vehicle passed by in North Sinai's Al-Arish, according to an interior ministry statement reported by Al-Ahram Arabic website.
The soldier was transferred to hospital.
Egypt's army has been battling a decade-long Islamist insurgency in parts of North Sinai, which spiked in 2013.
Hundreds of security forces members have been killed in similar attacks in the past three years.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-05-22 |