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| Explosion shakes Egypt's volatile northern Sinai |
| 2014-11-13 |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A boom-mobile outside a fast-food restaurant in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula maimed 10 people late on Tuesday when it went kaboom!as security forces were evacuating a heavily populated area, security and medical sources said, according to Rooters news agency. The kaboom shook the town of Arish in northern Sinai, a volatile area where security forces have launched a crackdown on Islamist Lion of Islams, the sources said. "We blew up the car remotely. There was a half a tonne of explosives" inside, an interior ministry front man, Hani Abdel Latif, told Agence La Belle France-Presse. It was too dangerous to try to defuse the bomb, Abdel Latif said adding that those injured were cut by shattered window glass. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Tuesday's blast came during a nighttime curfew ordered since an Oct. 24 suicide kaboom that killed 30 soldiers in a Sinai zone bordering the Gazoo Strip. It was not clear what the car-bomb was targeting. The remote but strategic Sinai Peninsula borders Israel, Gazoo and the Suez Canal. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Sinai was quiet and picturesque when we ruled it. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-13 08:15 |