Yesterday, Lebanon. Today, the Sinai, Egypt.Sinai, pretty much Israeli occupied........Egyptian army near Al-Arish in the Sinai peninsulaSuicide bomber in Egypt rams bus carting soldiers, kills 10
At least 10 government soldiers were killed and 35 injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-filled car into a bus that was carting the troops on a roadway in northern Sinai on Wednesday.The bomber hit one bus head-on, but managed to cause damage to another carrying soldiers that was traveling nearby,The soldiers were part of a unit that was engaged in some of the fiercest fighting against Islamic rebel forces. They were headed to Cairo.Nobody claimed immediate responsibility for the attack — but the method is similar to that used by al Qaeda-inspired groups,
Update 1: Death toll increases to 12
The toll from a bomb attack on soldiers in North Sinai has risen to 12 dead and 35 injured, state television announced on Wednesday afternoon. A parked car blew up as an army convoy passed by on the road between Al-Arish and Rafah on Wednesday morning, a security source told state news agency MENA.
The soldiers were about to begin their vacation.
Some of those critically injured were flown to a military hospital in Cairo's Maadi, Al-Ahram Arabic news website reported.
Preliminary examinations show a large amount of TNT explosives was used in the bomb, it added.Troops and Apache helicopters have been combing the area for the perpetrators.The attack is the bloodiest since mid-August when gunmen killed 25 policemen in an ambush on a security convoy in Rafah.The restive peninsula, already suffering a security vacuum since the ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, has seen a spike in militant activity since Mohamed Morsi's ouster. Attacks on security and army targets in the Sinai region have killed over 100 since July.