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Sepcial Report: Blast rocks Egypt's
Red Sea resort
CAIRO, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Two suicide
bombers blew themselves up on Wednesday near a base of the Multinational Force
and Observers (MFO) in Al-Gurah in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, the official MENA
news agency reported.
Initial reports said that the two suicide bombers
were killed, said MENA.
Governor of North Sinai governorate was quoted as
saying that the incident occurred at 10: 30 a.m. (0830 GMT) near the camp. The
pan-Arab al-Jazeera TV channel reported earlier that the bombing injured two
peacekeeping soldiers.
Al-Gurah is located about 30 km southeast of Al-Arish
on the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula.
The bombing came two days after deadly bombings in
the popular Sinai resort of Dahab, which killed at least 23 people and injured
dozens of others.
This was the second such attack against the base in
less than 10 months.
On Aug. 15, 2005, a remote-controlled bomb went off
near the camp and injured two female MFO members.
The MFO is an independent peacekeeping mission
created as a result of the 1978 Camp David Accords and the 1979 Treaty of Peace.
Since 1982, various nations have contributed military and civilian personnel to
the mission. Enditem |