CAIRO, April 26 (UPI) -- Suicide bombers targeted U.N. peacekeeping troops in Sinai Wednesday, two days after triple bombings rocked a tourist resort in the peninsula.
Security officials told United Press International that the bombers attacked a truck carrying international soldiers in Mansoura, just five kilometers (3 miles) away from Rafah on the Egyptian border with Gaza and Israel.
A Norwegian soldier and another from New Zealand in addition to two Egyptians were injured in the attack, the officials said.
But a U.N. spokesman denied any casualty occurred among the peacekeepers.
The officials said one of the bombers carrying an explosive charge attacked the truck as it slowed down at a turning point that leads to their military base in Rafah, while the second bomber tried to blow himself up in a police car escorting the international troops.
But police managed to kill the second suicide bomber before he detonated himself, the officials added.
There was no additional information on the attack, but the officials said the injured soldiers were transported to Israel for treatment.
Wednesday's incident came two days after deadly attacks hit the Sinai resort of Dahab killing 23 and wounding 85.
Egyptian officials said security forces rounded up more than 30 suspects in a search operation in the vicinity of Dahab which was hit by bombings Monday.
Earlier, police arrested 10 suspects, including three who were trying to get out of Dahab shortly after the explosions occurred in a stolen car with false plates.
