Bomb kills 6, including army colonel, in Egypt's Sinai
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A roadside bomb planted by Islamic militants in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula hit a military vehicle on Thursday, killing six people, including a senior army officer, security and hospital officials said.
They said the bomb struck a military convoy that was patrolling an area just outside the town of Bir al-Abd in northern Sinai, killing a colonel who was the town's military commander, a second officer and four soldiers.
Three more soldiers were wounded in the attack, they said.
Bir al-Abd was the scene of the deadliest terrorist attack against civilians in Egypt's modern history, when militants killed 311 worshippers in a mosque on Nov. 24.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has since vowed to use "brute force" to crush the long-running insurgency in northern Sinai and given the military and police three months to restore "security and stability" there.
