Bombing kills two Egypitan policemen in Sinai

A roadside bombing has claimed the lives of at least two Egyptian policemen in the restive Sinai Peninsula, Egypt’s Interior Ministry says.

The ministry said in a statement on Monday that the bomb exploded close to an armored vehicle on a highway near the North Sinai provincial town of El-Arish.

The Monday blast is the latest in a string of attacks against security forces across the troubled region.

No individual or militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, but some local sources said that militants loyal to the Daesh terror group were most likely behind the attack.

This came a day after gunmen shot dead a medic and two members of Egypt’s security forces who had been wounded in a bombing attack and were in an ambulance en route to a hospital in the northern Sinai town of Sheikh Zuweid, located about 334 km northeast of the capital, Cairo.

Also in early March, an Egyptian man was beheaded and his teenage son shot dead in El-Arish.

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