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| Two Egypt policemen killed in Sinai bombing | |
| 2016-07-12 | |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A roadside kabooming in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula killed two coppers on Monday, the interior ministry said. The ISIS group's self-styled Amaq news agency said a bomb planted by Death Eaters targeted a police mine clearing vehicle, but it was not clear whether it was referring to the same incident. The interior ministry said a police lieutenant and a sergeant were killed when a roadside kaboom tore through a convoy, also wounding two officers and a conscript. Militants in the peninsula bordering Israel and the Paleostinian Gazoo Strip have killed hundreds of soldiers and coppers in attacks since the army toppled Islamist president Mohammed Mursi in 2013.
According to security sources and eyewitnesses, unidentified assailants planted an improvised explosive device (IED) on a north Al-Arish road. The IED then detonated while a police vehicle was passing, killing a first lieutenant and a first sergeant and injuring three other police members. In another blast, a brigadier general and a conscript were killed, and three other conscripts were injured after an IED exploded in Al-Montabh in central Sinai when an IED targeted a patrolling police vehicle. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks. | |
| Posted by:Fred |