Roadside bomb kills six soldiers in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula
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Egyptian residents and emergency personnel gather at the site of a car bomb explosion that targeted a police station in North Sinai’s provincial capital of el-Arish, April 12, 2015.
At least six soldiers have been killed in Egypt in a roadside bomb explosion that struck their armored vehicle in the North African country’s volatile Sinai Peninsula, security and medical sources say.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the casualties were caused when an explosive device targeted the soldiers’ military vehicle in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday.
Another six troopers were also injured in the blast.
No individual or group has yet claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, but militants loyal to the Daesh terrorist group have been behind numerous similar attacks throughout the volatile peninsula in the past.
In recent months, Egypt’s army and security forces have been cracking down on militants affiliated with Daesh. The government in Cairo believes terrorists are using the volatile region as a safe haven.
Sinai Peninsula has been under a state of emergency since October 2014, following a deadly terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 33 soldiers.
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