Twenty-seven soldiers were among 32 people killed when militants struck multiple security posts in Egypt’s North Sinai in a series of attacks, involving car bombs and mortar rounds, one of the deadliest assaults claimed by a group that recently pledged allegiance to ISIS militants.Militants fired a barrage of rockets and set off a car bomb in a series of attacks on Thursday in restive north Sinai, killing at least 27 soldiers, three civilians and injuring 60 others, officials said.
Two children, one of them 6-months-old, were among the dead. The attacks targeted the headquarters of the North Sinai security directorate in the provincial capital of Al-Arish, a nearby army base, a hotel and several security checkpoints, State TV and the Ahram Arabic news website reported.“Militants fired mortar rounds and used car bombs in the attacks,” Egyptian TV reported. “At least three missile shells and a car bomb were used in separate attacks,” a source said.