{"id":5103,"date":"2014-09-03T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2014-09-03T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:26:34","slug":"egypt-security-forces-killed-in-sinai-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-security-forces-killed-in-sinai-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt security forces killed in Sinai attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 11 soldiers have been killed in an attack on an army convoy in Egypt&#8217;s Sinai Peninsula, according to local security and medical sources.<\/p>\n<p>Two were killed by a roadside bomb and the others were shot dead as they tried to flee, the security sources said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula have stepped up attacks on policemen and soldiers since Abdel Fattah el-Sisi toppled Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Mohamed Morsi in July 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Egypt News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2014\/09\/egypt-security-forces-killed-sinai-attacks-20149210354214745.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 11 soldiers have been killed in an attack on an army convoy in Egypt&#8217;s Sinai Peninsula, according to local security and medical sources. Two were killed by a roadside bomb and the others were shot dead as they tried to flee, the security sources said on Tuesday. Armed groups in the Sinai Peninsula [&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":[258,256,4697,415,1649,345,257,4694,1814,3878,254],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-el-sisi","tag-muslim-brotherhood","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-sinai","tag-sinai-peninsula","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","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=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/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=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}