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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
IS claims deadly attack on Egypt police in Sinai
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe Islamic State jihadist group says that it was behind the car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed eight people yesterday.
The group’s Egyptian branch, Sinai Province, says in a statement that “soldiers of the caliphate” had staged the assault on the checkpoint near the city of El-Arish.
According to the interior ministry, seven policemen and a civilian passerby were killed in the attack, while police shot dead five assailants.
Jihadists have killed hundreds of soldiers and policemen since the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013 unleashed a bloody crackdown on his supporters.
Most of the attacks have taken place in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel and the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
— AFP
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