CAIRO (Reuters)
- Seven people including four police personnel were killed on Tuesday when a
suicide bomber targeted police near a market in the North Sinai town of Sheikh
Zuweid, Egypt’s interior ministry said in a statement.
The attacker was
around 15 years old, the ministry said, and a six-year-old was among the dead.
Twenty-six other people were wounded and have been transferred to hospital, it
said.
The attack
happened when security forces were conducting a sweep near the market, the
statement said.
The head of
investigations in the town and his assistant were among those killed, three
security sources said.
The Islamic
State group claimed responsibility for the attack and said 15 people were
killed or wounded. It identified the attacker as Abu Hagar al-Masry and said he
had detonated an explosive vest when he was near a police foot patrol.
Egypt is
battling an Islamist militant insurgency that has carried out attacks mainly in
the remote Sinai Peninsula, where the military has been conducting a major
security operation since February 2018.
Credit: Reuters
– 10 April 2019
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