Bomb kills 4 soldiers in Egypt's Sinai

A bomb explosion killed an Egyptian colonel and three soldiers in North Sinai on Wednesday as their armoured vehicle passed by, security officials and emergency services said. The device was detonated from a distance as the vehicle was engaged in a search operation on the outskirts of provincial capital El-Arish, the officials said.
Another 12 soldiers were wounded in the blast, they added. Jihadists, including from an Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State group (IS), have regularly attacked security forces in the peninsula since the army toppled Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013.