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Four Egyptian soldiers have been killed in the Sinai Peninsula, where the local branch of the Islamic State group regularly attacks security forces, the army said on Sunday.
The troops were killed during operations around El-Arish in northern Sinai province, close to the border with the Gaza Strip, army spokesman Brigadier General Mohamed Samir said on Facebook.
Six jihadists were killed during the same operation and others were arrested, he said.
Also in El-Arish, three policemen and three civilians were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a security convoy, the interior ministry’s Facebook page said.
The authorities are checking body parts found at the scene that officials suspect are the remains of the bomber, the statement said.
In a statement posted on social media, the Islamic State affiliate in Egypt claimed the attack, which damaged an armoured vehicle and a police car.
army has been battling an Islamist insurgency in northern Sinai which escalated since the military overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in 2013.
