Mortar fire kills 11 civilians in Sinai

Mortar fire has killed 11 civilians, all but one of them women and children, in Egypt's North Sinai, where the government is battling an Islamist insurgency, police and medics said yesterday. The mortar rounds, which hit two houses in a village southeast of the provincial capital El-Arish Wednesday night, also wounded six people, the officials said without specifying who was behind the attack.

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