Insurgents detonated car bombs in the Egyptian border town Rafah on Wednesday, killing four troops and injuring 20 other individuals.
The first bombing demolished an Egyptian intelligence building, according to Israel Hayom. The second attack targeted a nearby army checkpoint only moments later.
Israel Hayom reports:
Beside the four killed, 20 people -- 12 soldiers and eight civilians -- were wounded in the bombings, said the officials. Also, five houses near the military intelligence building were badly damaged, they said.
Militants in Sinai, some with links to al-Qaida, have been targeting Egyptian forces for months in the strategic peninsula bordering Gaza and Israel. Their attacks have become much more frequent and deadlier since the ouster this summer of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's Islamist president. After Mubarak's ouster, Morsi became the country's first democratically elected president in 2012 but he was deposed in July by the military after days of massive street protests against him.
