FILE - In this Tuesday, May 21, 2013, file photo, Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in an armored vehicle backed by a helicopter gunship during a sweep through villages in Sheikh Zuweyid, northern Sinai, Egypt. and police facilities and checkpoints. A powerful explosion killed several Egyptian police conscripts and an officer near the border town of Rafah in the restive Sinai Peninsula early Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of a local al-Qaida-inspired group, Egyptian security officials said. The Interior Ministry and a security official said the bomb was hidden deep under the asphalt of a highway, in an area called Wadi Halfa, where a joint police and army force was passing early in the morning. (AP Photo, File)
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