Mortar fire kills two children in Egypt's Sinai

[WorldNews]

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Mortar fire killed two five-year-old boys Monday in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, officials said, hours after a bomb killed three soldiers in the area where troops are fighting an Islamist insurgency. Mortar rounds struck a residential area south of the town of Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai late on Monday in which the two boys were killed, medics said. Earlier a roadside bomb struck an armoured military vehicle on the Egyptian side of the divided city of Rafah on the Gaza border, killing an army officer and two soldiers. Jihadists who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, which controls swathes of Iraq and Syria, said they carried out the bomb attack.

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