Sinai bomb kills soldier, wounds 3

CAIRO: An Egyptian soldier was killed and three others wounded on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit an armored vehicle in the Northern Sinai, sources said.
The bomb was planted on a road south of Sheikh Zuweid town, security sources said. Troops and militants exchanged fire in the area before the blast, they added.
North Sinai is at the heart of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of members of soldiers and police since 2013. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
Sinai Province, a militant group that has declared allegiance to Islamic State, has claimed such attacks in the past.
Two students from a military academy were killed on Wednesday when a bomb blast hit a minibus in the northern city of Kafr Al-Sheikh.