Suspected militants kill 6 police in Egypt’s restless Sinai
EL-ARISH, Egypt — Suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s turbulent Sinai Peninsula ambushed a taxi in which off-duty policemen were travelling back to their units on Saturday, killing five of them before fleeing, according to security and medical officials.
They said the incident took place just south of the coastal Sinai city of el-Arish.
The soldiers were returning to duty from home leave.
Earlier on Saturday, a roadside bomb planted by suspected IS militants hit a police armoured personnel carrier in northern Sinai, wounding nine policemen inside, the local police headquarters said in a statement. One of the nine later died of his wounds in hospital.