Egypt official says Sinai bombing kills 3 police, wounds 8

CAIRO — Egypt's state news agency says three policemen have been killed in a roadside bombing in the turbulent north of the Sinai Peninsula.

MENA quoted an unidentified security official saying that the Wednesday explosion targeted an armoured personnel carrier in the city of El Arish, wounding another 8 policemen.

The official says the wounded were taken to the military hospital in El Arish.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest attack. A local affiliate of the Daesh terror group has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on security forces in Sinai since 2014.

Egypt has for years been fighting a Sinai-based insurgency. The attacks have grown more frequent and deadlier since 2013, when President Abdel-Fattah Al Sisi, then the defence minister, led the ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi.