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Egypt kills 18 militants in foiled Sinai attack, army says

Two Egyptian military personnel died and four were wounded in an operation in the Sinai Peninsula July 21.
TOPSHOT - A picture taken on November 25, 2017, shows the Rawda mosque, roughly 40 kilometres west of the North Sinai capital of El-Arish, after a gun and bombing attack.
Armed attackers killed at least 235 worshippers in a bomb and gun assault on the packed mosque in Egypt's restive North Sinai province, in the country's deadliest attack in recent memory.   / AFP PHOTO / STR        (Photo credit should read STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Egyptian security forces killed 18 suspected militants in aerial and ground operations in the restive northern Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, thwarting what the army described as a terrorist attack. 

Two military personnel died and four others were wounded when militants attacked an army post in the northern Sinai’s Bir al-Abed, a military spokesman said. In addition to killing 18 suspects, security forces destroyed seven vehicles that were used in the attack or carried explosives.

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