CAIRO: A bomb blast killed two Egyptian police officers and wounded five others in an attack on their armored vehicle in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
The vehicle was targeted near a school in the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, it said in a statement, in the second such attack in recent days.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the region is a stronghold of Daesh.
Separately, fighting between army troops and extremist militants in Sinai killed four children and wounded eight other minors on Thursday, Egyptian medical officials said.
The Rafah hospital said in a statement that the children were killed and wounded during clashes using heavy weapons, with some buried under rubble when buildings were hit and collapsed. The fighting took place close to the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Late in the night, the El-Arish security directorate said in a statement that an improvised explosive device also hit an armored column in the city, killing two senior police officers and wounding four others.
In a statement distributed by Daesh sympathizers on social media, the militant group said that it had killed and wounded more than 20 soldiers, including senior officers, during the attack.
Egyptian security and health officials had said the attack killed an army colonel and three soldiers and wounded another 12 soldiers, several of whom were in a critical condition.
The vehicle was targeted near a school in the North Sinai provincial capital of El-Arish, it said in a statement, in the second such attack in recent days.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the region is a stronghold of Daesh.
Separately, fighting between army troops and extremist militants in Sinai killed four children and wounded eight other minors on Thursday, Egyptian medical officials said.
The Rafah hospital said in a statement that the children were killed and wounded during clashes using heavy weapons, with some buried under rubble when buildings were hit and collapsed. The fighting took place close to the border with the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Late in the night, the El-Arish security directorate said in a statement that an improvised explosive device also hit an armored column in the city, killing two senior police officers and wounding four others.
In a statement distributed by Daesh sympathizers on social media, the militant group said that it had killed and wounded more than 20 soldiers, including senior officers, during the attack.
Egyptian security and health officials had said the attack killed an army colonel and three soldiers and wounded another 12 soldiers, several of whom were in a critical condition.
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