{"id":417134,"date":"2017-09-11T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/11\/is-attack-on-sinai-convoy-kills-18-egyptian-police\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:47:16","slug":"is-attack-on-sinai-convoy-kills-18-egyptian-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/11\/is-attack-on-sinai-convoy-kills-18-egyptian-police\/","title":{"rendered":"IS attack on Sinai convoy \u2018kills 18 Egyptian police\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt\u2019s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources say.<\/p>\n<p>Militants detonated a roadside bomb near the town of el-Arish, reportedly destroying three armoured vehicles and a fourth with signal-jamming equipment.<\/p>\n<p>They then opened fire with machine guns at survivors of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry confirmed there had been an attack and that several policemen had been killed or injured.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of soldiers and police have been killed by militants affiliated to IS since 2013, when the Egyptian military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.<\/p>\n<p>The jihadists have also killed dozens of people in attacks targeting Egypt\u2019s Coptic Christian minority elsewhere in the country, and claimed it planted the bomb that brought down a plane carrying tourists in Sinai in 2015, killing 224 people on board.<\/p>\n<p>In Monday\u2019s attack, the police convoy was travelling along the road between el-Arish and Qantara when a suspect vehicle tried to break through it, according to an interior ministry statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen police forces dealt with the vehicle, it exploded and caused damages to the patrol\u2019s vehicles,\u201d it added. \u201cThis was followed by a shootout between the police officers and the terrorists, resulting in the death and injury of several policemen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It did not provide any casualty figures, but the attack appears to have been the deadliest on security forces in Sinai since July, when at least 23 soldiers were killed in a suicide car bombing that targeted a checkpoint near the Gaza border.<\/p>\n<p>IS claimed it was behind the attack via its news agency Amaq.<\/p>\n<p>It comes a day after the interior ministry said security forces had killed 10 suspected militants in a shootout during a raid on two apartments in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators had received information about militants travelling from northern Sinai to the capital to prepare for attacks on neighbouring provinces, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 policemen have been killed in an attack on a convoy in Egypt\u2019s Sinai peninsula claimed by so-called Islamic State, security sources say. Militants detonated a roadside bomb near the town of el-Arish, reportedly destroying three armoured vehicles and a fourth with signal-jamming equipment. 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