ISIL terrorist group said Tuesday that it was behind the car bomb attack on a police checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula that killed eight people a day earlier.

The group’s Egyptian branch, Sinai Province, said in a statement that “soldiers of the caliphate” had staged the assault on the checkpoint near the city of El-Arish.

According to the interior ministry, seven policemen and a civilian passerby were killed in the attack, while police shot dead five assailants.

Source: AFP