A roadside bomb hit a bus carrying workers heading to a military cement factory in Northern Sinai in the early hours of Monday, leaving tens injured and dead. Ahram's Arabic-language news website said the bus was bombed on a road in the city of Arish. At least 23 have been injured in the attack, according to state-owned Radio Masr. The death toll was not immediately available. Few hours earlier, a bomb reportedly exploded in a region close to a military vehicle near the Rafah border with Israel. A military source however denied to Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the attack has happened in the vicinity of a vehicle owned by security forces, adding that the explosion has killed a member of a "terrorist" group as he was attempting to plant an explosive body on El-Sheikh Zuweid road in north Sinai The Sinai Peninsula has witnessed increasing confrontations between militants and Egyptian armed forces since the ouster of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi on 3 July. On Friday, a policeman was killed in a militant attack on a checkpoint in Sinai. Last week, at least ten policemen were killed in Sinai in separate attacks. More details to follow. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/76490.aspx
