The officials say that the gunnies attacked a police checkpoint in the town of Rafah early on Sunday, also wounding two conscripts who were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Authorities say that security forces killed a fighter, and maimed others, in festivities that followed the assault.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to talk to news hounds.
No group grabbed credit for the attack, which bares the hallmarks of an Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
affiliate based in northern Sinai.