{"id":1304,"date":"2015-04-20T20:29:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.humanrightsagency.com\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2015-04-20T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T20:29:23","slug":"bomb-kills-3-egyptian-cops-injures-5-others-in-restive-sinai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/bomb-kills-3-egyptian-cops-injures-5-others-in-restive-sinai\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb kills 3 Egyptian cops, injures 5 others in restive Sinai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three Egyptian soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Egypt\u2019s restive Sinai Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Medical sources, requesting anonymity, said the remote-controlled improvised explosive device went off as a military vehicle was driving in the border town of Rafah on Monday morning, Egyptian Arabic-language newspaper al-Youm al-Saba\u2019 reported.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces later rushed to the area, and launched an investigation to determine the motive behind the act of violence.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes only two days after at least 13 militants were killed by Egyptian armed forces during operations in the city of el-Arish, situated 344 kilometers (214 miles) northeast of the capital, Cairo, and the town of Sheikh Zuweid, situated 334 kilometers (214 miles) northeast of Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>On April 17, similar security raids against terrorists in North Sinai\u2019s Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid killed at least ten extremists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three Egyptian soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Egypt\u2019s restive Sinai Peninsula. Medical sources, requesting anonymity, said the remote-controlled improvised explosive device went off as a military vehicle was driving in the border town of Rafah on Monday morning, Egyptian Arabic-language newspaper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agencedh.org\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}