CAIRO: Three people were killed in an explosion near a security compound in Egypt’s Sinai region, near the border with Israel, security officials.
Egypt has been hit by militants insurgency led by Sinai-based militants.
Hundreds of soldiers and police officers have been killed in those attacks. Medical sources said around 22 others were injured in Sunday’s blast.
Security sources said that the explosion was due to a rocket targeting North Sinai’s main security compound and in front of a nearby crowded supermarket in Sinai’s northern city of Al-Arish.
The victims are suspected to all be civilians, according to the sources.
Who have mainly targeted security forces since last year’s army ouster of elected Islamist “President Mohamed Mursi”.
The army ousted Mursi in July of last year after mass protests against his rule and hundreds of street protesters were killed and thousands of leaders and activists were jailed.
Egypt’s newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief, and he has promised to fight what he calls terrorism and restore stability to the Arab world’s.
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