Local security sources told Anadolu Agency earlier that only nine policemen were killed -- and another ten injured -- when a massive truck bomb exploded at a security checkpoint near the city of Arish in the peninsula’s northeast.
Since 2013, when Mohamed Morsi -- Egypt’s first freely-elected president -- was ousted in a military coup, hundreds of Egyptian security personnel have been killed amid an ongoing militant insurgency in Sinai.
Egyptian security forces continue to wage a fierce campaign, involving elements from both the police and army, against what they describe as Sinai-based "terrorist groups".
Egypt’s army-backed authorities say they are battling the Welayat Sinai ("Province of Sinai") group, which is alleged to have links with IS.
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