CAIRO: Unknown gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in the Egyptian town of Al-Arish on Wednesday, killing two policemen and leaving two injured, a security official said.
"Unknown gunmen travelling in two small cars without number plates shot at police officers with automatic weapons," the official told AFP.
The checkpoint had been set up outside a bank on a main street in Al-Arish in north Sinai.
"The shooting left two policemen dead, and two injured," the official said.
The assailants, believed to number at least six, managed to escape immediately after the shooting, witnesses said.
Egypt has struggled with security problems since a popular uprising which toppled Hosni Mubarak in February saw police disappear from many areas.
The issue is worse in Sinai, where the resident Bedouin community is heavily armed.
