Roadside bomb in Sinai kills 2 Egyptian troops, wounds 5
CAIRO (AP) -- A roadside bomb struck an Egyptian military vehicle in the restive northern Sinai on Monday, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding five soldiers, security officials said.
The officials said the explosion took place in the Taweel al-Amir area south of Rafah and that the injured were taken to the military hospital in el-Arish.
In a separate incident, gunmen open fired on a police patrol in the Nile Delta province of Beheira, wounding five policemen, local security officials and Egyptian state-run media said.
Egypt has been battling an Islamic insurgency in northern Sinai for years, but attacks mainly targeting the army and police escalated and spread to the mainland after the July 2013 military ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. An Islamic State affiliate based in Sinai has claimed a series of large-scale assaults there.
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