Eleven Egyptian policemen were killed when a roadside bomb blast
struck their armoured vehicle in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday,
security officials said.
Islamist militants have claimed a string
of attacks that have killed scores of policemen and soldiers, mostly in
north Sinai, since the army overthrew president Mohamed Morsi in July
last year.
Another four conscripts were wounded in the explosion
on a road leading to the town of Rafah bordering the Palestinian Gaza
Strip.
The military has sought to quell the militants in a massive
operation that has killed scores of extremists and netted some of their
leaders.
The main militant group, Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has
acknowledged in statements the loss of some of its leaders, but has
continued to attack both the security forces and Bedouin suspected of
collaborating with them.
The group, whose name means Partisans of
Jerusalem, has also said it was behind deadly bombings of police
buildings in the capital and the Nile Delta.
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