Army forces in North Sinai Governorate destroyed two cars that were prepared for a bombing in the towns of Arish and Sheikh Zuwayed, the armed forces spokesperson Ahmed Mohamed Ali said Thursday.
The security forces in North Sinai received information on Thursday morning stating that Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, a terrorist group that has planned a recent spate of car bombings against army and police forces, had also planned an attack in the cities of Sheikh Zuwayed and Arish.
Ali said the armed forces reponded to the intelligence and combed the areas, when a red car happened to be moving quickly toward the security forces, upon which the forces fired at it, causing a huge blast as the car contained a large quantity of explosives.
He pointed out that forces also spotted a private car parking on one side of the road near one of the camps in the city of Arish. The forces handled the car remotely, causing an explosion as the car contained explosives as well, according to Ali.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
