CAIRO—An attack on security forces near Egypt’s St Catherine’s Monastery in south Sinai on Tuesday killed at least one police officer and injured four others, the Health Ministry said, just a week after two deadly church bombings killed 45.
Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint several hundred meters from the church entrance. No one has claimed responsibility.
The attack comes just 10 days before Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Egypt and just over a week after two deadly suicide bombings on Christian churches, claimed by Islamic State, plunged the country into mourning and marked one of the bloodiest days for the country’s Christian minority in decades.
Men walk inside Saint Catherine's monastery, in the Sinai Peninsula, south of Egypt on Dec. 8, 2015. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
