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Roadside bomb attack kills 4 Egyptian forces in restive Siani

23 July 2015 21:28 (UTC +04:00)

Egypt’s Military spokesman Brigadir Geneneral Mohammed Samir said on his Facebook page that one officer and three soldiers were killed on Thursday when their armored vehicle hit the bomb in the Sinai city of Rafah.

Blaming the incident on militants operating in the restive region, Samir further said that three troops were also wounded in Thursday’s bomb blast.

Meanwhile, a security official in Sinai, whose name was not mentioned in reports, said Thursday’s explosion occurred outside a checkpoint in the village of el-Mahdiya village, south of Rafah.

No group has claimed responsibility for the bombing but it bears the hallmark of militants affiliated to the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group.

On July 18, a total of seven Egyptian soldiers also lost their lives in separate instances of violence in the Sinai Peninsula.