A suicide bomber driving a garbage truck packed with explosives rammed his vehicle into an Egyptian security checkpoint in the northern Sinai city of al-Arish on Monday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 22, officials said. The attackers planted a bomb in a street cleaning vehicle they had stolen a few days earlier from the…
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The U.S. State Department issued this statement:
The United States strongly condemns today’s suicide attack at security checkpoints in northern Sinai, which killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more. We express our deepest sympathies to the families of the victims and wish a quick recovery for the injured.
The United States strongly supports Egypt’s security, and we will continue to work with the Egyptian government to counter terrorism.