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From the Liveblog of Monday, April 13, 2015

Egyptian soldier killed at Sinai-Gaza border

13 April 2015, 5:48 pm

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Separate attacks in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula killed one soldier and wounded another Monday, a day after jihadists loyal to the Islamic State group killed 14 people in twin bombings.

Security officials said gunmen shot dead a soldier at a checkpoint in the Rafah area on the border with the Islamist-run Gaza Strip Palestinian enclave.

They added that a second soldier at another checkpoint in the same area was wounded in a similar attack.

Egyptian relatives and mourners carry the body of police officer Amr Shoukry during his funeral in north Sinai's provincial capital of Al-Arish on April 13, 2015, after he was killed in a bomb attack targeting the Al-Arish police station the previous day. (photo credit: AFP/STR) — Egyptian relatives and mourners carry the body of police officer Amr Shoukry during his funeral in north Sinai’s provincial capital of Al-Arish on April 13, 2015, after he was killed in a bomb attack targeting the Al-Arish police station the previous day. (photo credit: AFP/STR)

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday’s attacks, but Ansar Beit al-Maqdis said it was behind Sunday’s two bombings.

— AFP

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