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A roadside bomb killed a police officer and wounded two conscripts in Egypt's northern Sinai city of el-Arish on Saturday, Al-Masry Al-Youm has reported.
On Friday, another roadside bomb killed a police officer and wounded three others in the the same city.
Four other people were wounded on Friday when a bomb that had been planted at a Cairo street intersection near the pyramids was being neutralized by the bomb squad, the interior ministry said. According to AFP, the Islamic State (IS) group claimed responsibility for the device.
Egypt has been facing a Sinai-based insurgency that has claimed the lives of hundreds of security forces since the army removed president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood in July 2013, following mass protests against his rule
The Right of the Martyr, an extensive security operation that was launched by the army and police in the volatile North Sinai area on September 8, left hundreds of militants killed or arrested..