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Africa North
Seven people killed in North Sinai suicide bombing
2019-04-10
[AlAhram] Four police personnel and three civilians including a six-year-old boy were killed and at least 26 others were maimed in a suicide kaboom on Tuesday afternoon in a Sheikh Zuweid market in North Sinai governorate, Egypt's interior ministry said.

According to the ministry, a 15-year-old jacket wallah detonated explosives at a security checkpoint in the local market in the heart of Sheikh Zuweid city.

Two coppers and two low-ranking coppers were killed in the attack.

The injured have been transferred to a nearby hospital to receive treatment.

Security forces from the police and Armed Forces are currently sweeping the area.

The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has grabbed credit for the suicide kaboom in a statement published online. The terrorist organization said that the attack was Dire Revenge for recent operations against the group in Syria.

The military has been carrying out Operation Sinai 2018, a counter-terrorism campaign, since February 2018. The campaign involves land, naval and air forces, as well as the police and border guards.
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