Two Police Killed in North Sinai Attack

Local Editor

Two policemen were killed in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula as terrorists targeted a minibus with a rocket-propelled grenade, security officials said Friday.

The attack occurred late Thursday in the north Sinai town of el-Arish, Egypt’s state-run Middle East News Agency reported.

The bus was carrying police recruits when it was attacked, killing two and injuring 10, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported.

A security source cited by the agency blamed the attack on Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, an al-Qaeda-linked group responsible for a string of deadly attacks in the northern Sinai.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team