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Press TV
Unknown gunmen have attacked on a police station in Sinai Peninsula near the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip.


The assailants, on board two vehicles, opened fire at Sheikh Zuwayyid police station near Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip early Saturday, but there were no casualties, Egyptian officials said.

"Police officials shot back and the exchange of fire continued until they (the gunmen) fled," they said."There were no injuries sustained during the exchange of fire," they added.

The police station became operational on August 8, after an 18-months-closure following an attack during country’s revolution in 2011.

The Sinai Peninsula became the scene of clashes between Egyptian border security guards and unknown gunmen on August 5, where at least 16 Egyptian guards were killed in the offensive.


The eruption of militant attacks in the Sinai region prompted the Egyptian government to deploy hundreds of troops in the restive region to prevent any future attacks.

The new Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has pledged to strongly respond to the "cowardly attacks," vowing that the assailants would pay for the deadly attacks.

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas say Israel’s spy agency Mossad was behind the earlier attack.