...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...turbans against the East Canal Water Lifting Station checkpoint on Saturday, the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson announced.
According to the statement, the attack was foiled by the checkpoint personnel, but it resulted in the death of an officer and 10 soldiers as well as the injury of five others.
The remaining turbans are currently being hunted down and are besieged in one of the isolated areas in Sinai, the statement added.
This is the first major attack of its kind in 2022. Terrorist attacks in the Sinai, especially in the north where they had been concentrated, have declined since 2013 following massive and successive security and Army operations.
No group has grabbed credit for the attack.
Egypt has been battling Islamist turbans in North Sinai for several years. Terrorist attacks have mostly targeted security forces, particularly at military and police checkpoints, causing thousands of casualties.
Thousands of turbans were reportedly killed in the military operations launched by the authorities to eradicate terrorism from the area.