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| Police lieutenant, soldier killed in IED explosion in North Sinai |
| 2016-05-22 |
| [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. |
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