Gunmen ambush ambulance in Sinai, kill 3

Gunmen shot dead two wounded members of Egypt’s security forces in an ambulance after they had been injured by a bombing in the Sinai Peninsula, security officials say.

A medic in the ambulance was also killed in the ambush in the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai, where the jihadist Islamic State group is spearheading an insurgency.

Inside the ambulance were three security personnel who had been wounded just minutes previously in a blast targeting their armoured vehicle, a senior security officer in El-Arish tells AFP.

“When the ambulance left the site of the blast with the wounded security members it came under attack from gunmen,” the officer says, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Two wounded security personnel and a medic were killed in the ambush,” he said, without specifying whether the dead were in the police or army.

— AFP