Roadside bomb kills 3 soldiers in Egypt’s Sinai

By AFP - Mar 09,2015 - Last updated at Mar 09,2015

CAIRO — Three Egyptian soldiers were killed Monday and three others critically wounded in a roadside bomb attack in the restive Sinai peninsula, police and medical officials said.

Egyptian security forces have been battling an Islamist insurgency in North Sinai since the army ousted president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.

"Gunmen remotely detonated a roadside bomb when a military vehicle drove by, near a security checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid city," east of the provincial capital of El Arish, a police official told AFP.

A health ministry official in North Sinai said three soldiers were killed and three others critically wounded.

Militant attacks in Sinai are spearheaded by a group called Ansar Beit Al Maqdis (Partisans of Jerusalem), the Egyptian affiliate of Daesh terror group that has seized chunks of Syria and Iraq.

The group says the attacks, which have killed scores of security personnel, are in retaliation for a government crackdown against Morsi supporters that has left hundreds killed and thousands jailed.

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