With the explosion in the Sinai Peninsula killed two Egyptian policemen
CAIRO, July 8 — RIA Novosti, Nadim Zuaui. Two officers were killed and another nine injured in an explosion Saturday in the Northern Sinai near El-Arish, reports the Egyptian Agency MENA.
According to him, the armored car in which there were employees of the Ministry of internal Affairs, was undermined in the area of Al-Safa while driving along one of the streets. The district tightened security and explosives experts check the adjacent areas.
The explosion in El-Arish happened the next day after a series of attacks on military targets in Northern Sinai.
On Friday, attacks killed 23 and injured another 33 military. While the security forces in clashes killed more than 40 militants. A large number of victims among the Egyptian military due to the fact that during the attack the militants used car bombs.
On Saturday it became known that the Egyptian security forces were able to eliminate another 14 members of terrorist groups during a special operation in the province of Ismailia East of Cairo.
Egypt has about three years conducts anti-terrorist operation in the North of the Sinai Peninsula, where remote areas were based extremist groups. From this region regularly receives reports of new attacks by extremists. For the last time in the region from the actions of terrorists killed and injured hundreds of policemen and soldiers.