Bombs kill seven in Egypt's Sinai

[WorldNews]

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Bomb attacks killed four Egyptian soldiers and three civilians on Wednesday in the Sinai Peninsula, where security forces are fighting an Islamist insurgency, police and medics said. Jihadists regularly target security forces in the region in retaliation for a bloody crackdown on supporters of ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Wednesday's bombings occurred in and around the town of Rafah in North Sinai, where the military has built a buffer zone to prevent militants from crossing into Egypt from the Palestinian Gaza Strip. The area is a bastion of the jihadist group Sinai Province, formerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis.

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