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Blast in Egypt's North Sinai kills five soldiers - security source


    ISMALIA (Reuters) - An explosion targeting a military vehicle killed five soldiers near the town of Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt's North Sinai on Sunday, a security source said, a region beset by Islamist militant violence.

    North Sinai is the epicentre of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of members of the Security (SECURITY.8)services mid-2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi after mass protests against his rule.

    (Reporting by Yusri Mohamed in Ismalia and Ahmed Tolba in Cairo, Writing by Sylvia Westall, editing by Mark Heinrich)