SINAI
By Mohamed Salama
Egyptian security forces have thwarted an attempt to blow up a gas pipeline in the Sinai Peninsula.
In a Friday statement, the North Sinai Security Directorate said that three projectiles have been found.
A security source said that the projectiles were likely planned to be used in blowing up the pipeline near the pipeline in the North Sinai city of Arish.
Gas pipelines were attacked several times since the January 25 revolution that ousted long-serving president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
The Egyptian army is launching a wide-scale military operation aimed at countering an unprecedented rise in militant attacks on security personnel in the border region.
