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Huge car bomb kills at least 25 soldiers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
24 October 2014 16:23 BST
A suicide attack on a military checkpoint in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Wednesday has killed at least twenty-five soldiers and injured twenty-six others, according to security sources.
It is the deadliest attack on Egyptian troops since twenty-five were killed near the border town of Rafah in August 2013.