CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian soldier was killed and three others wounded on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit an armoured vehicle in the Northern Sinai, medical and security sources said.
The bomb was planted on a road south of Sheikh Zuweid town, security sources said. Troops and Islamist militants exchanged fire in the area before the blast, they added.
North Sinai is at the heart of an insurgency that has killed hundreds of members of soldiers and police since 2013, when then-army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi after protests. Sisi was elected president last year.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's attack.
Sinai Province, a militant group that has declared allegiance to Islamic State, has claimed such attacks in the past.
Two students from a military academy were killed on Wednesday when a bomb blast hit a minibus in the northern city of Kafr al-Sheikh.
(Reporting by Yusri Mohamd in Ismailia; Writing by Mahmoud Mourad; Editing by Sylvia Westall and Andrew Roche)