Fresh violence in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula- a huge explosion rocks the northeastern city of el-Arish.
Medics say at least two civilian has been killed in a car bomb blast which targeted a police station. Thirty others have also been injured. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident yet. The bomb went off hours after another explosion ripped through an army vehicle killing six soldiers and wounding two. Sinai has been gripped by a deadly militancy since the army’s ouster of former president Mohamed Morsi on July 3 last year.