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Sunday, September 08, 2013CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — At least 10 people were killed as Egypt’s army launched an air and ground assault on Sinai militants yesterday while foiling a railway bombing near the canal city of Suez, officials said.A prosecutor levelled new accusations meanwhile against Mohamed Morsi, already facing trial on other charges, alleging the Islamist leader insulted the judiciary when he was president, state media said.Egypt has seen an uptick in bombings and shootings, mostly aimed at the security forces, since August 14 when hundreds were killed in clashes after police broke up two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo.The military has been facing an insurgency in north Sinai, a haven for Al-Qaeda-inspired militants who have launched almost daily attacks against security forces in recent weeks.Yesterday, the army carried out air strikes on suspected militant hideouts while armoured vehicles were deployed in the area and along the Rafah border with the Gaza Strip, officers told AFP.Air attacks launched by Apache helicopters and ground operations killed at least “10 Islamist fighters”, while 20 others were wounded and 15 arrested, security officials said.“The army is pursuing its operations against terrorist hideouts to arrest” those suspected of involvement in attacks on military target, one official said.Egyptian authorities meanwhile closed the Rafah border crossing yesterday for “security reasons”, said Maher Abu Sabha, the crossing’s director in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.Elsewhere, police called in military bomb disposal experts after residents from Abu Aref village said they spotted a bomb on the railroad that links Suez with another canal city, Ismailiya.Two mortar rounds and a rocket-propelled grenade were attached to a fuse and appeared to have been intended for a 6:00 am (0400 GMT) train, officials said.Hours later, assailants hurled a grenade at a Cairo police station, security officials said.The attack — the third in weeks on the teeming Boulaq al-Daqrour station — did not cause any casualties.CAIRO, Egypt — Muslim Brotherhood supporters chant slogans as they march in Cairo on Friday. Thousands of protesters flowed out of mosques in Muslim Brotherhood-led rallies against the military-backed Government a day after a car bomb in the Egyptian capital marked a substantial escalation in Egypt’s violent turmoil. (PHOTO: AP)
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More bloodshed in Egypt
