CAIRO (Sputnik) — Seven civilians were killed in the north of the Sinai Peninsula in a terrorist attack by a car bomb explosion near the checkpoint in the vicinity of the city of Arish, the Egyptian Armed Forces said Monday.
According to the military, the terrorists drove up to the checkpoint in a jeep and intended to explode their car in the midst of people, but the servicemen prevented these plans, denying the car a pass, according to the statement of the armed forces on their Facebook page.
The army tank blocked the road to the terrorists. The militants embarked in a shoot-out with servicemen and detonated a bomb in the car near the tank, resulting in seven civilians killed, including three men, two women and two children. The armed forces stressed that if a car exploded directly at the checkpoint, dozens of people would have been killed.
