Egypt gunmen kill five in Sinai

September 30, 2013 22:09

Gunmen in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, a hotbed of Islamist militant activity, killed three policemen and a soldier today while shooting dead a civilian in another attack, officials said.

Masked attackers shot three policemen guarding a police station in the North Sinai town of El-Arish before fleeing, a security official said. Later, unidentified assailants in a car fired at an armoured military vehicle in the south of the town, killing a soldier before fleeing, said the same source.

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