44 killed, over 80 injured in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula

‘At least 44 people have been killed and many others injured in militant attacks across Egypt’s volatile Sinai Peninsula.

Egyptian security officials said at least 44 people were killed and over 80 others injured after militants carried out attacks on army and police targets as well as an office of a daily newspaper in the strife-stricken Sinai Peninsula.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a massive car bomb detonated outside the headquarters of the 101st Brigade of the Egyptian army in the city of El-Arish, situated 344 kilometers (214 miles) northeast of the capital, Cairo, late on Thursday, leaving scores of people killed and wounded.’

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