Two police killed in Egypt's Sinai

Gunmen killed two Egyptian policemen and wounded two others in the El-Arish region of the Sinai peninsula on Saturday, state television said.

Several militant attacks in the Sinai, which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip, have targeted police and soldiers, including a brazen August 5 ambush on an army outpost that killed 16 soldiers.

Security in the desert and mountainous region collapsed after a January-February 2011 uprising that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.