Cairo - Seven civilians were killed in the north of the Sinai Peninsula in a terrorist attack by a car bomb explosion near the checkpoint in the vicinity of the city of Arish, said the spokesperson for the Egyptian Armed Forces in a press release. According to the military, the terrorists drove up to the checkpoint in a jeep and intended to explode their car in the midst of people, but the servicemen prevented these plans, denying the car a pass, according to the statement of the armed forces on their Facebook page. The tank of the patrol confronted the booby-trapped car to go off 200 meters far from the checkpoint. The blast killed seven civilians, including three men, two women and two children. The armed forces stressed that if a car exploded directly at the checkpoint, dozens of people would have been killed.
