Two soldiers killed in North Sinai bomb attack
A roadside bomb kills two soldiers in a village of North Sinai, near border
with the Gaza strip
Ahram Online , Tuesday 24 Mar 2015
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/125982/Egypt/Politics-/Two-soldiers-killed-in-North-Sinai-bomb-attack.aspx

Two Egyptian soldiers were killed on Tuesday when a roadside bomb struck
their armoured vehicle in North Sinai, a bastion of Islamist insurgency.

Security sources told Reuters the attack took place near the village of
Al-Kharouba on Tuesday when suspected militants remotely detonated a bomb as
security forces were patrolling the area.

Six other soldiers were also wounded in the explosion, the sources added.

The northern part of the Sinai Peninsula, adjoining Israel and the
Palestinian Gaza strip, has long been a haven of Islamist insurgency.
However, militant violence, mainly based in the mountainous region, has
increased since the 2013 ouster of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi.

Attacks and bombs by militants have killed hundreds in the past 18 months-
mainly security forces in North Sinai- though smaller-scale bombings and
shootings have become commonplace in the capital and other parts of the
country.