{"id":29352,"date":"2014-10-20T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29352"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:11:37","slug":"roadside-bomb-kills-7-in-egypts-sinai-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/20\/roadside-bomb-kills-7-in-egypts-sinai-peninsula\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside bomb kills 7 in Egypt&#8217;s Sinai Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/el-arish-egypt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29413\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/el-arish-egypt.jpg\" alt=\"el arish egypt\" width=\"596\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/el-arish-egypt.jpg 596w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/el-arish-egypt-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EL-ARISH, Egypt \u2014 A roadside bomb in Egypt&#8217;s restive northern Sinai province hit an army vehicle on Sunday, killing 7 troops including two officers and seriously wounding six others, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion ripped through the armored vehicle traveling south of el-Arish, the provincial capital, as it headed to a natural gas pumping station to comb it for suspected militant activities, the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy chloroquine online <a href=\"https:\/\/maranavetclinic.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/chloroquine.html\">maranavetclinic.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/chloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The northern part of the Sinai Peninsula has been a haven for Islamic militants, who have waged regular attacks against troops and security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have increased and spread beyond Sinai in the wake of the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi last year after mass demonstrations demanding his resignation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vilitra online <a href=\"https:\/\/maranavetclinic.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vilitra.html\">maranavetclinic.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/vilitra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> A subsequent clampdown on Morsi&#8217;s supporters intensified the wave of retaliatory attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the major attacks were carried out by an al-Qaida-inspired group called Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, or Champions of Jerusalem, which is based in northern Sinai where the Egyptian army has carried out a yearlong offensive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL-ARISH, Egypt \u2014 A roadside bomb in Egypt&#8217;s restive northern Sinai province hit an army vehicle on Sunday, killing 7 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-w","mauthors-ashraf-sweilam","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283617,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29352\/revisions\/283617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}