CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen killed at least 15
Egyptian policemen and seized an army tank in an assault on a Sinai
police station near the border with Israel on Sunday, the deadliest
attack in the region in at least two decades.
The attack, which saw Israeli aircraft destroy a
vehicle used by the gunmen to try to storm the fortified border, was the
first major security emergency for Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi,
who summoned his military council.Egyptian state television and Israeli military officials said an Islamist militant group was responsible for the assault.
Israel has previously accused Palestinian militants in Gaza of involvement in militant activity in Sinai, where insecurity has spread since the U.S.-aligned Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, was toppled by a citizen revolt last year.
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