Mortar Fire Kills 11 Civilians in Egypt’s Sinai
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Mortar fire has killed 11 civilians, all but one of them women and children, in Egypt's North Sinai, where the government is battling an extremist insurgency, police and medics said Thursday.
The mortar rounds, which hit two houses in a village southeast of the provincial capital al-Arish Wednesday night, also wounded six people, the officials said without specifying who was behind the attack.
Sinai is a hotbed of an extremist group once known as Ansar Beit al-Makdis, which changed its named to Sinai Province after pledging allegiance last year to "ISIL".
In a separate incident in the same area, a roadside bomb targeting an armored personnel carrier killed two police and wounded three, police said.
On April 2, Sinai Province claimed a series of simultaneous attacks that killed 15 soldiers and two civilians in the restive peninsula.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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