Egypt - the IsIs militant launch simultaneous attack on checkpoint in sinai peninsula, killing at least 64 soldiers, An official said The officials said scores of militants were besieging Sheikh Zuweid's main police station, shelling it with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades and exchanging fire with dozens of policemen inside.
The militants planted bombs along a road between the police station and an army camp to deter reenforcements. The ISIS Islamist militants have killed at least 70 people in a series of coordinated attacks on several military checkpoints in Egypt's North Sinai.
Security sources say 15 died when a car bomb exploded at a military post in North Sinai, one of five targeted along with a police station.
Egypt's army said the checkpoints were attacked by about 70 militants and a battle continued for more than eight hours. The latest attacks came a day after Mr el-Sisi vowed justice would be served over the prosecutor general's assassination - and possibly move to execute Muslim Brotherhood leaders, the Islamist group.
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