{"id":3336,"date":"2014-06-29T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3336"},"modified":"2014-06-29T14:27:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:27:06","slug":"four-soldiers-killed-in-bus-attack-in-north-sinai-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/four-soldiers-killed-in-bus-attack-in-north-sinai-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Four soldiers killed in bus attack in North Sinai, Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO &#8211; Unidentified assailants shot four soldiers dead on Saturday night in North Sinai&#8217;s Rafah, security sources at the army said.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers stopped a bus the soldiers were taking by force and shot the four soldiers, the sources added.<\/p>\n<p>Security forces are after the attackers to bring them to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Since former President Mohamed Mursi&#8217;s ouster in 2013, Sinai has been witness to escalating confrontations between police and army forces on one side and militant extremists on the other.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/en.aswatmasriya.com\/news\/view.aspx?id=9578538c-27f5-4681-bbd6-3f70704b8c4b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aswat Masriya<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO &#8211; Unidentified assailants shot four soldiers dead on Saturday night in North Sinai&#8217;s Rafah, security sources at the army said. The attackers stopped a bus the soldiers were taking by force and shot the four soldiers, the sources added. Security forces are after the attackers to bring them to justice. Since former President Mohamed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,4697,415,1815,257,4694,1816,1813,1814,254],"class_list":["post-3336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-militant-extremists","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-north-sinai","tag-north-sinais-rafah","tag-sinai","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}