CAIRO: A bomb attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai killed 10 soldiers and another blast struck police in Cairo Wednesday, amid a wave of unrest following Islamist president Muhammad Mursi’s July ouster.
The 10 soldiers were killed when a car bomb exploded next to an army bus in the Sinai peninsula, where Islamists have carried out scores of attacks on security forces in recent months, the army said.
In a separate incident, assailants hurled an explosive device at a checkpoint in northern Cairo, wounding four police including a major, who was struck by shrapnel in his face and back, security sources said.
The military said that 35 others were wounded, some critically, in the North Sinai attack, in which a car packed with explosives detonated as the bus drove by near the regional capital El-Arish.
The Sinai bombing was the deadliest in the region bordering Gaza and Israel since an August 19 ambush by gunmen on a convoy of security forces that killed 25 policemen in the North Sinai town of Rafah.
On September 5, a car bomb had targeted Egypt’s interim interior minister Mohamed Ibrahim in Cairo.
10 Egypt soldiers killed as bombs hit Sinai, Cairo
