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At least ten Egyptian soldiers including a colonel were killed in a suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint in northern Sinai, security sources said.<\/p>\n

The attack started when a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a checkpoint at a military compound in the southern Rafah village of el-Barth, followed by heavy gunfire from dozens of masked fighters on foot, offcials said.<\/p>\n

The dead included a high ranking special forces officer, Colonel Ahmed el-Mansi, and at least 20 others were wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n

Sirens of ambulances were heard from a distance as they rushed to the site of the attack.<\/p>\n

The officials spoke to AP news agency on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorised to speak to the media.<\/p>\n

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. However, Egypt in recent years has been battling a stepped-up uprising in northern Sinai, mainly by fighters from a group affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.<\/p>\n

Over the past months, ISIL has focused its attacks on Egypt\u2019s Christian minority and carried out at least four deadly attacks that killed dozens, prompting army chief-turned-President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi to declare a state of emergency in the country.<\/p>\n

The Sinai branch of ISIL appears to be the most resilient outside Syria and Iraq, where the so-called caliphate is witnessing its demise.<\/p>\n

The group\u2019s offshoot in Libya has been uprooted in months-long battles in the central city of Sirte while its branch in Yemen has failed to seize territories or compete with its al-Qaeda rivals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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