(VOVworld) – More than 30 insurgents were killed and 10 others were injured in a clash between Egypt’s security force and insurgents on Thursday at a military check point in Sheikh Zuwei city in Egypt’s northern Sinai.

The police were investigating the site of a bomb attack outside the Swiss-Inn hotel in al-Arish city on Sinai peninsula, Egypt on November 24 (Photo: AFP/VNA)

In another clash on the same day, the security force destroyed 8 strongholds of the extremists in Sheikh Zuweid, 4 vehicles and counteract some hand-made explosive devices near a school and a transformer station in El-Arish, the capital of northern Sinai. Meanwhile, a explosion occurred on a coastal roadside in Abu Refa’ei linking between El-Arish and Sheikh Zuwei, killing 2 security officers and one civilian.