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July 8, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-attack-sinai-checkpoints-close-israel-border-195448574.html

Islamists Attack Egyptian Soldiers in Northern Sinai

(Reuters) Armed men in pickup trucks launched a series of attacks on Sunday on Egyptian military checkpoints in the northern Sinai towns of Sheikh Zuweid and El Arish, part of a spike in violence since Wednesday's overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. One soldier was killed. On Friday, five Egyptian security officers were killed in El Arish. On Saturday, a priest was killed there, four checkpoints were fired upon, and an explosion hit an Egyptian pipeline supplying gas to Jordan.

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