CAIRO — Seven civilians, including two children, were killed when a car bomb exploded near a military checkpoint in North Sinai, the Egyptian army said on Monday. The explosion happened 200m from its military target, "when an Egyptian soldier used a tank to stop the vehicle", according to the army statement. The victims – three men, two women and two children – "happened to be in the area in front of the ambush during the blast," the statement added, without saying when the incident happened. "The explosion was large, carrying about 100kg of high explosives," an army spokesman said in the statement. The bombing by IS of a Russian airliner carrying holidaymakers from a South Sinai resort in 2015 killed all 224 people on board and severely damaged the country’s tourism sector.

Source: Viet Nam News July 24, 2017 22:52 UTC