BREAKING: At least 10 Egyptian soldiers killed as militants attack Sinai
checkpoints
Ahram Online , Wednesday 1 Jul 2015
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/134218/Egypt/Politics-/BREAKING-At-least--Egyptian-soldiers-killed-as-mil.aspx

At least 10 Egyptian soldiers were killed when militants launched attacks on
five Egyptian military checkpoints in North Sinai early on Wednesday, an
army spokesman said.

Ahram’s Arabic news website quoted security forces as saying that militants
have simultaneously fired mortar rounds at five checkpoints in Sheikh
Zowayed, a town in North Sinai.

The northern part of Egypt's border Sinai Peninsula has been a bastion of an
Islamist insurgency that has spiked since the 2013 ouster of Islamist
president Mohamed Morsi and a crackdwon on his supporters. Militants have
mainly targeted police and troops in deadly attacks that killed hundreds,
including civilians, over the past two years.

On Tuesday, gunmen shot dead an Egyptian policeman outside a museum in
southern Cairo and three suspected militants were killed in a car explosion
in a suburb of the capital.

The attacks came a day after Egypt's top public prosecutor was assassinated
when a car bomb struck his convoy in Cairo, the highest-ranking state
official to be killed since Morsi's removal.

More details to follow.